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1) The OCR'ed epub versions aren't very good. The stuff that keeps the bitmaps intact (i.e. PDF) are quite readable.

2) If you wanna do a big bulk download for your favorite e-reader, here are the instructions.

https://blog.archive.org/2012/04/26/downloading-in-bulk-usin...

if the OCR'd versions aren't very good, is it worth it to get them for ereaders? (PDFs on small kindle kinda suck, I don't expect others to be much better)

EDIT: apparently no, the .mobi are quite terrible, but the .txt version is ok. Weird.

Yeah, PDF's are generally horrible on small screen e-readers. On a larger color tablet like an iPad, they look pretty good.

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