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Originally Posted by Quoth
Basically no-one is going to keep DRM based files, or upload them. That's why EBG / LIT are rare.
I have obfuscated ebooks. PD texts were published as Library of the Future on CD (DOS and later DOS / Windows) and on mini CD in a caddy using Sony EBG. The standard CD has only access via the DOS or Windows application. 1750 Titles. I can't get it to run on a Win98SE VM. It did work on DOS and Windows 3.1. The Sony EBX version is three separate discs and compiled EBX format. That can be unraveled on Linux and the official Sony DOS EBX and EBAX emulators for DOS reads them. That does work on the Command console on Win98SE and DOSbox. I also have a Sony DD-1EX (video out only and EBG format)) and Sony DD-20 (LCD works and it's EBG/EBXA) and the 2nd part. The Sony caddies pop open and the mini-CD works in a regular drive.
The Sony Data Discman electronic books (EBG & EBXA are the 2 most common of 4 formats) are rare. The Sony Bookman is rarer and the titles even rarer (full size CDs).
There was no way to viably sell regular novels on those two Sony formats (180 MByte and 650 MByte), hence PD collections, dictionaries, encyclopedias (XA added multimedia sound, but mini Audio CDs work) and other reference works.
I think ALL the MS titles had DRM and needed online connection. Some of the Adobe EBX might be DRM free. I thought I had some, somewhere. I'll look eventually.
Project Gutenberg started in 1971-1971 and because of the issue of orphaned formats their primary format is text. Internet existed long before HTML (initial proposal 1989) and websites (1992).
I've a Palm PDA and it had at least two different pdb formats. Later Mobipocket for PalmOS could read two pdb formats, but not mobo/kf7 that Amazon inherited when they bought Mobipocket in 205, which has optional DRM. Readers on Palm, Symbian, old Windows CE, DOS and Windows 3.x
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Do you have this Geronimo Stilton eBook or something like it at least?
I would like to upload it to the IA (Internet Archive soon).
