u/ushallfuh

Let's assume, for the sake of brevity, that I want to print copyright-expired books from a place like gutenberg.org for my own personal collection. In general, how much would it cost me per book? Let's assume that the average book I want, were I to buy it instead would cost me $20 with shipping included from places like amazon - would printing it be cheaper than that or not? I think I should mention that I don't need fancy bindings

Let's also assume the that average amount of pages per book is 500, just as a detail if that helps you come up with a general price. I'm assuming that's going to mean 250 pieces of papers worth of A4 paper (I'm Europe-based) per book?

Sorry if this is not the right place for this kind of a question