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Croker · 11-22-2009, 10:29 AM

Hello!

Sorry for the clunky thread title, but I've got a bit of a unusual issue here, and I'm turning to YOU, good men and women of Mobileread, for help. Allow me to explain:

Remember "Apollo 13"? There's a great scene where both the astronauts and NASA staff on the ground realise that they need to bring down the nearly dangerous levels of Carbon Dioxide in the capsule, and so the NASA boffins produce all the items available to the astronauts on a big table (including socks, duct tape, etc), and eventually work out a way of fitting a square peg into a round hole, thus saving the astronauts' lives.

Why do I mention this? Well, I'm off to Southeast Asia for 6 weeks from 16/12/09, and my Sony PRS-505 will be going with me. However, as a keen Stephen King fan, I've been looking forward to buying the ebook version of his new novel, "Under the Dome" to read whilst I'm there (it'll give me something to do on long bus/plane journeys, for a start). You can imagine my dismay when I found out that the ebook edition will only go on sale from 24/12/09, at which point I will be on an island just off the coast of Vietnam.

You can probably guess what's coming next - I propose a challenge, similar (but thankfully not as life-threatening!) to the one that confronted NASA and Apollo 13. Can anyone work out how I can legally buy a copy of the "Under the Dome" ebook, and get it on to my Reader in Vietnam on 24/12/09?

To assist you in your endeavours, I can say this - I will have my Reader with me, and I should also have access to the internet whilst on Whale Island (through a PC at the resort where I'm staying). I will also have the relevant USB cables for connecting the Reader to a PC. I cannot, however, be certain that I would be able to install any other programs to this PC, such as ADE or Calibre. It's possible that I would be able to do so unnoticed, and uninstall them afterwards, but I can't be certain of this - they may have the PC set up in such a way as to make installation of new programs by any random guest difficult (if not impossible).

So, how can this be achieved?

I look forward to hearing from you!

11-22-2009, 10:29 AM	#1
Croker Connoisseur Posts: 94 Karma: 630 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: Kobo Libra Colour, obv.	"Under the Dome" and the "Apollo 13" workaround challenge! Hello! Sorry for the clunky thread title, but I've got a bit of a unusual issue here, and I'm turning to YOU, good men and women of Mobileread, for help. Allow me to explain: Remember "Apollo 13"? There's a great scene where both the astronauts and NASA staff on the ground realise that they need to bring down the nearly dangerous levels of Carbon Dioxide in the capsule, and so the NASA boffins produce all the items available to the astronauts on a big table (including socks, duct tape, etc), and eventually work out a way of fitting a square peg into a round hole, thus saving the astronauts' lives. Why do I mention this? Well, I'm off to Southeast Asia for 6 weeks from 16/12/09, and my Sony PRS-505 will be going with me. However, as a keen Stephen King fan, I've been looking forward to buying the ebook version of his new novel, "Under the Dome" to read whilst I'm there (it'll give me something to do on long bus/plane journeys, for a start). You can imagine my dismay when I found out that the ebook edition will only go on sale from 24/12/09, at which point I will be on an island just off the coast of Vietnam. You can probably guess what's coming next - I propose a challenge, similar (but thankfully not as life-threatening!) to the one that confronted NASA and Apollo 13. Can anyone work out how I can legally buy a copy of the "Under the Dome" ebook, and get it on to my Reader in Vietnam on 24/12/09? To assist you in your endeavours, I can say this - I will have my Reader with me, and I should also have access to the internet whilst on Whale Island (through a PC at the resort where I'm staying). I will also have the relevant USB cables for connecting the Reader to a PC. I cannot, however, be certain that I would be able to install any other programs to this PC, such as ADE or Calibre. It's possible that I would be able to do so unnoticed, and uninstall them afterwards, but I can't be certain of this - they may have the PC set up in such a way as to make installation of new programs by any random guest difficult (if not impossible). So, how can this be achieved? I look forward to hearing from you!