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If you see a website offering "1,000 law books free download," run. If you see GovInfo, LII, or CanLII, settle in and read. law book free
Before hunting for free books, understand why they cost so much. Legal publishing is a duopoly (Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw and RELX Group’s LexisNexis). They sell not just books, but annotations —the cross-references, case notes, and citators (KeyCite and Shepard’s) that tell you if a case is still "good law." Have you found a legitimate free resource I missed