I've had the best luck with ebooks that are actual scans of old books. OCR still ain't ready for prime time and prodces some pretty bizzare results.
archive.org usually has multiple formats available for each book and I just download different ones until I get one that displays well on my iPad. I also have an older Kindle, but that requires that I download it on my Mac and then "mount" the Kindle as a device and then copy the file. Don't do that much anymore, but when I do it gives me a chance to back up all the non-Amazon content.
Another benefit of the scanned books is that you sometimes get little hand-written notes and such from the previous owners; little raisins in your cookie.
Last edited by Pappy348; 05/15/16.
