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#1 of 15 Posted Oct-17 11:01 AM

From John in Detroit Posts 967 Last Nov-24
To All [Msg # 107174.1 ]

One of the E-mail lists I subscribe to is a Freebies list (Actually I get two of them) and one listed THIS LINK to a Free E-Book and Audio book club site

Now,, this site is a bit confusing,, Because when you click on a link you get another page that has "Request Download Ticket" at the top

Click on Request download ticket,, and if you follow the right path, You get a RAR file, that, when un-packed with Win-RAR, will give you an LIT file, which when opened with The LIT-Reader (Which I got from A-Z downloads as the one I tried to get direct from Microsoft did not work) gives you...

Fifty six books by Anne McCaffery....

Or you can get books by several other authors

(You will have to scroll down quite a ways to find the books I mention in this post)

Including most, if not all, of the PERN books

The E-Reader I have will also read them to me.. Decent voice.. (But I only read "Graphical image, Graphical image" by computer..

SO far the list look good. I'll be downloading a few more books soon.

(I have the 56 books mentioned, and a Dean Koontz thriller just now.. More later

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#2 of 15 Posted Oct-18 1:42 PM

From Bill Thomasson Posts 84 Last Nov-24
To John in Detroit [Msg # 107174.2 107174.1 ]

John,

The question is, are these pirated copies? Dollars to doughnuts most of them are. You'll notice that the site is careful to say nothing about the provenance of the copies -- only that they were "found on the web."

Bill Thomasson

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#3 of 15 Posted Oct-18 7:29 PM

From John in Detroit Posts 967 Last Nov-24
To Bill Thomasson [Msg # 107174.3 107174.2 ]

Considering the amount of times I've seen this site advertised on the web.. I'm inclined to believe they are legit.. however I have not the resources to check it out.

The best I can say is that it did not trip any alarms,, Electronic or mental, and considering some of the electronic alarms I have.. That's something.

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#4 of 15 Posted Oct-31 1:44 PM

From Cassy B. Posts 416 Last Nov-20
To John in Detroit [Msg # 107174.4 107174.1 ]

John,

Fifty six books by Anne McCaffery....

That's all very well, and since I own pretty much everything Anne wrote in hard copy I'm not so worried about it if it's pirated; it's just what I already own transferred to a different medium. (I would NOT knowingly download a book that might be pirated that I do not already own, however. The author must be paid.)

But the .rar file (which I had to download a reader for) is password protected, so I still can't open it. Any hints?

Cassy

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#5 of 15 Posted Nov-1 12:50 PM

From John in Detroit Posts 967 Last Nov-24
To Cassy B. [Msg # 107174.5 107174.4 ]

Any Hints... Yes, in fact 2 of 'em I think the first one does it.. DO NOT FORGET THE UNDERSCORE

password 1: books_for_all
password 2: www.freebookspot.com

As I recall, Password 1 did the trick on all the files I downloaded that needed one.

Note that this information was yet another downloaded file from the web page :) (Well, 2 lines of it. the actual file is a tad longer)

Edited Nov-1 by John in Detroit

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#6 of 15 Posted Nov-2 12:19 PM

From Cassy B. Posts 416 Last Nov-20
To John in Detroit [Msg # 107174.6 107174.5 ]

John,

Ok, now I can unlock them... I note that at least some have Russian headers.

This disquiets me; it makes me inclined to agree with Bill that these are pirated books.

It also makes me worried about trojan horses.

I think I'll stick with buying books, or downloading free books from publisher's sites and the Gutenberg Project.

Cassy

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#7 of 15 Posted Nov-3 10:43 AM

From John in Detroit Posts 967 Last Nov-24
To Cassy B. [Msg # 107174.7 107174.6 ]

None of the ones I've see have headers in anything other than english. Though a few do have some typos... I've seen no evidence of any mal-ware and I have good anti-mal-ware software on this box.

That said... I've not downloaded all that many

It appears the host web site is a Yahoo Group.. ... But frankly the key word is "Appears"

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#8 of 15 Posted Nov-3 12:16 PM

From Cassy B. Posts 416 Last Nov-20
To John in Detroit [Msg # 107174.8 107174.7 ]

John,

None of the ones I've see have headers in anything other than english. Though a few do have some typos... I've seen no evidence of any mal-ware and I have good anti-mal-ware software on this box.

The .doc documents in the Arthur C. Clarke batch had headers with Russian URLs.

Cassy

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#9 of 15 Posted Nov-4 9:58 AM

From John in Detroit Posts 967 Last Nov-24
To Cassy B. [Msg # 107174.9 107174.8 ]

Ok, Have not looked at those

As I said, my Anti-mal-ware software has not hit on anything, and I do have that file on the disk,, Just have not looked at it yet.

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#10 of 15 Posted Nov-11 6:43 PM

From 4merCL Posts 103 Last Nov-24
To John in Detroit [Msg # 107174.10 107174.1 ]

>> Fifty six books by Anne McCaffery.... <<

Fifty-six (56)? Do these all eminate from the same fingers on the keyboard, or is Anne McCaffrey a publishers house nom for a series of books that may be written by multiple uncredited actual authors?

Best regards, 4merCL

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