I looked at the Gutenberg site, Google, and ManyBooks. Of the three, I felt that the interface at the Google site was the most user-friendly, and that the layout & display made it feel more like a site I would return to. I wasn't able to find free versions of any of several of my favorite authors' books, but did find several older items that are on my list of have-read-&-would-read-again items. Patrons looking for current popular fiction items would appear to be out of luck in most cases (no real surprise there), but someone looking for the classics - as the task mentions - should have no trouble finding most any of them by looking among these sites. I found several that I remembered from school without much digging at all. I was able to find several current non-fiction titles.
Being somewhat familiar with the math world, I looked through Google's section on it and found several familiar topics, and even a particular title I remembered from engineering courses. Most of the specific items that I looked at were only available on the limited view, but that at least gives a good idea of what an item is about.
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