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Originally Posted by Sporadic
If you really want to read these books so bad and you don't care about Ayn Rand getting any money, just pirate them.
- edit And it's funny how most of the people who are getting their panties in a bunch don't own Kindles. PRS-505 owners going "glad I don't have whispernet now"
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Good idea, Sporadic: how do I do that pirating?
Because it's a real problem, and I understand very well why someone uploaded Atlas Shrugged onto the Kindle site.
I've looked everywhere for this book in a readable form and I cannot find it. The paperback my library and local bookstore carries has 6 point font: I am not kidding, 6 points, I have some expertise on this issue of font size. The book is huge and like all big books published in paperback, they cut the type size WAY down because there are serious limits on how many pages you can get into paper binding.
On Alibris and Abebooks reasonable hardbacks from old times are unavailable. There is no text version on the Internet that I have found. So far.
BUT -------- SONY and Amazon Kindle don't carry them! If they did, we could get the type size up to a readable level. And that's the issue, really. I can't find the newer hardbacks to look at them and see if they are readable and I don't want to spend $25 on a pig in a poke.
It's quite annoying that basic popular classics like Atlas Shrugged are not available on the eReaders owing to some sort of "screw you" policy by the publishers, presumably.
For that reason, I'd download a pirate copy in a New York minute ---- I'm VERY willing to pay money, I would prefer to pay money, but the publishers aren't selling a readable copy if your eyes happen to be over 40 years old, so the heck with them.