Manybooks.net
I do most of my book reading on a Palm OS handheld, so I'm surprised that I didn't discover Manybooks.net sooner. This elegantly designed site offers over 13,000 free e-books for download in a variety of ready-to-use formats. Many of the titles are from Project Gutenberg, but have been cleaned up so I don't have to copy and paste them into BB Edit and remove the line breaks.
Shown here: Little Fuzzy, by H. Beam Piper a 1962 science fiction story about a race of cute little monkey like creatures that live on a planet earmarked for a mining operation. The law forbids mining companies from working on planets with sentient beings, so the conflict is between those who stand to make a huge profit and therefore don't want to consider the fuzzies to be sentient, and those who get to know the fuzzies and like them so much that they want to think of them as sentients. Here are the top 20 downloaded titles of 2005. Link
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I remember Little Fuzzy; this book was wonderful. I read it in an omnibus with its sequel.
Dear Mark, I would be very interested to learn more about your Palm OS book reading set-up! 'K:"B
Here you go, Kai:
ttp://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000391.php