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Old 08-22-2024, 03:42 PM   #31
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Then it's not PD and only in their library system which cheats authors. They think by having checkout and loans on copyright material that the laws that apply to everyone else mysteriously don't apply to them.

If you want your own copy of a copyright work, rather than public library, Kindle Unlimited, or IA's dodgy Open Library, then you have to buy it.
That didn't answer the question, lol.
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Old 08-23-2024, 09:43 AM   #32
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Really? How?
I am never able to download any pdf, no matter which book I check, it always tells me there are no options for download at this time.
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Old 08-23-2024, 09:50 AM   #33
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Trivial to download IA PDF or image collections without adding another browser extension and increasing attack surface.

No-one needs that.
Thanks for your assistance!
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I've downloaded a few books from archive.org, but it has always been a sort of last resort.
They have usually been pdfs which don't work well with my kindle or epubs which are really just a collection of images which are even worse.

So I have always had to read them on my computer.

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Likewise, pdfs can be of worse quality than processed jpegs .
I have come across a few pdfs (not from archive.org) which looked absolutely terrible on screen using Adobe Reader and almost unreadable. But when printed, they looked absolutely perfect.
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