Thread: If You Had a Library with WTS Books, It's GONE Now!
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Old 05-13-2017, 05:50 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
A bookstore is under absolutely no obligation to store your books for you indefinitely. Did they ever tell you that they'd do so? If you buy a book, it's your responsibility and yours alone to download it and keep it safe. You've been an MR member long enough to know that bookstores can and do go out of business! Sorry, but your problem is entirely of your own making.
Entirely of my own making? The problem is entirely of my own making? Do you mean that, literally, no part of the problem is of the ebook companies' making?

I plead guilty to naivete. Yes, I should have been downloading the ebooks, and saving them securely. As I wrote in my initial post on this thread, "I'm going to be downloading ebooks from all of my libraries that I can [from now on], across all vendors, to my hard drive just as soon as I can." I may even make backups, in addition to the ones that I do on my hard drive. I haven't done it, yet, but I may start backing up also, or instead, to the cloud.

There is tons more that I'd like to say, but I need to calm down. Besides, you (MobileReaders in general, at least) probably don't want to hear it anyway. I apologize to the MobileReaders who make posts after this one. I want to read them, especially since I started the thread, but I just can't stomach anymore about this right now.

Before I quit, I have a question. I may have erred when I said that WTS Books was giving me only 6 days to unzip the file; they may have meant, to download the zip file. As long as I've got the zip file, I have my books from WTS Books in some form on my computer perpetually, right? And once I figure out how or--and I'm not holding my breathe--the representative at Westminster Theological Seminary Bookstore tells me how--I can unzip the file even after 6 (now it's 5) days? Or is there some kind of limit that can be built into the zip file where it will no longer unzip after a certain date or amount of time?

I'll be hanging out, as I usually do, at "Bargains, Freebies, and Deals" thread, as I normally exclusively do, writing about some good things.
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