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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Just tried the website. I would also have to do the macarena to get it to readable.
Ok I just went and tried to get A thousand and one nights. Clicked on the link. I saw the download mobi and clicked it. It opened a second window with a pop-up for user and password. Clicked my back button. The pop-up disappeared and came right back. Had to click the x and close the entire tab.
Apparently I didn't see something on either the front page or the book page.
Nope, public domain book I know I can find it elsewhere so won't bother to find out how to get a password.
And oh crap it is a zip file anyway.
Really not bothering now.
Sorry OP. I admire what you are trying to do, but way too hard for free books.
Editing to add, if pop-up blocker is on, then the person may not ever get to the login window.
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Sorry you had such troubles. But, above the link that you clicked, it says, "Download ZIP archive files containing Volumes 1 to 16" - so, that you get a zip file that contains 16 separate files shouldn't come as a surprise? It also says, "To download single files, see below."
It also says, above the download link, "To download PDF, ePub or Mobi files you need a free Library Card", with "Library Card" being a link to the page that tells you the user name and password - no need to register, you just have to memorize "Dunayzad" as the user name and copy/paste the password. You need user name and password here on MobileRead, too, and on Facebook, and Twitter, and a lot of other places, so, that should not be such an obstacle?
And, what you get, is a "1001 Nighs" edition that is different from those that you'll find elsewhere. I have reduced Burton's footnotes by about two thirds (if you are a Burton scholar, you'll need a different edition, but if you just want to read the tales, you'll probably be grateful), I've fixed some punctuation issues (e.g. clarifying where direct speech ends when Burton had it indicated by a preceding m-dash), I have introduced paragraph breaks to make the text better readable, and I have fixed a huge number of OCR errors (though meanwhile Gutenberg, at least, has a much better proofread version than there was when I started my work).
Other books bear fewer traces of my editing, but, for instance, Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines" exists in a version where in one chapter there occurs an eclipse of the sun, while in another version this scene happens at night, and involves an eclipse of the moon. I'm not a scholar, I just happened to notice this when I proofread the text against different sources. I stayed with the eclipse of the sun, but added the eclipse of the moon version as an appendix - I'm not aware of any other edition of this book, printed or digital, that offers both versions. That's the sort of things I'm doing ... that, and the very careful typesetting of the PDF versions, with manual hyphenation and line breaks.
And, while it's only 41 books vs. 54000 at Gutenberg, they are books that I have chosen, books that I like and that I think are interesting, and if you share my literary tastes, you can take my selection as a recommendation, and it may help you find something you might not have discovered among the fifty thousands.
OK, sorry, all this is getting off topic, I had just wanted to know if there were still places that have links to e-book sites or individual e-books ... Thank you all for the encouragement, and for your critical words, from which I'll try to learn!