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winterbadgerKind of interesting (OK, well, to book geeks like me).
Top 50 downloaded free books from ibilio.org, as quoted by PG.
They list the top 100, but I thought that was a bit much to post.
# The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) by J. Arthur Thomson (760)
# Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob (623)
# U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 January - June by U.S. Copyright Office (537)
# Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 by Havelock Ellis (516)
# Illustrated History of Furniture by Frederick Litchfield (490)
# Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (370)
# U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 July - December by U.S. Copyright Office (333)
# Our Day by William Ambrose Spicer (324)
# Searchlights on Health by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols (317)
# History of the United States by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard (306)
# The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (265)
# U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June by U.S. Copyright Office (260)
# The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English by Ray Vaughn Pierce (254)
# The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (249)
# General Science by Bertha M. Clark (238)
# The Beginner's American History by D. H. Montgomery (222)
# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (221)
# Ulysses by James Joyce (221)
# Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (217)
# Woman as Decoration by Emily Burbank (203)
# I Like Martian Music by Charles E. Fritch (201)
# U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 July - December by U.S. Copyright Office (200)
# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens (196)
# Dracula by Bram Stoker (194)
# Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (193)
# What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Mary Wood-Allen (192)
# The Iliad by Homer (175)
# The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed (174)
# Flight Through Tomorrow by Stanton Arthur Coblentz (171)
# The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (169)
# The American Housewife by Anonymous (168)
# The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci (167)
# Manual of Surgery Volume First: by Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson (151)
# Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (150)
# Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (144)
# Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (143)
# The Elements of Bacteriological Technique by J. W. H. Eyre (143)
# The Art of War by 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi (139)
# Across Unknown South America by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (139)
# A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen (139)
# War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy (135)
# The Mafulu by Robert Wood Williamson (134)
# The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (133)
# The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (129)
# The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine by Various (128)
# The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (128)
# Stopover by William Gerken (125)
# Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont (124)
# Across Coveted Lands by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (122)
# Emma by Jane Austen (122)
Top 50 downloaded free books from ibilio.org, as quoted by PG.
They list the top 100, but I thought that was a bit much to post.
# The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) by J. Arthur Thomson (760)
# Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob (623)
# U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 January - June by U.S. Copyright Office (537)
# Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 by Havelock Ellis (516)
# Illustrated History of Furniture by Frederick Litchfield (490)
# Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (370)
# U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 July - December by U.S. Copyright Office (333)
# Our Day by William Ambrose Spicer (324)
# Searchlights on Health by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols (317)
# History of the United States by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard (306)
# The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (265)
# U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June by U.S. Copyright Office (260)
# The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English by Ray Vaughn Pierce (254)
# The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (249)
# General Science by Bertha M. Clark (238)
# The Beginner's American History by D. H. Montgomery (222)
# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (221)
# Ulysses by James Joyce (221)
# Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (217)
# Woman as Decoration by Emily Burbank (203)
# I Like Martian Music by Charles E. Fritch (201)
# U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 July - December by U.S. Copyright Office (200)
# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens (196)
# Dracula by Bram Stoker (194)
# Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (193)
# What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Mary Wood-Allen (192)
# The Iliad by Homer (175)
# The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed (174)
# Flight Through Tomorrow by Stanton Arthur Coblentz (171)
# The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (169)
# The American Housewife by Anonymous (168)
# The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci (167)
# Manual of Surgery Volume First: by Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson (151)
# Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (150)
# Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (144)
# Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (143)
# The Elements of Bacteriological Technique by J. W. H. Eyre (143)
# The Art of War by 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi (139)
# Across Unknown South America by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (139)
# A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen (139)
# War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy (135)
# The Mafulu by Robert Wood Williamson (134)
# The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (133)
# The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (129)
# The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine by Various (128)
# The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (128)
# Stopover by William Gerken (125)
# Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont (124)
# Across Coveted Lands by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (122)
# Emma by Jane Austen (122)
