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Old 08-19-2007, 03:44 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by Bombast View Post
I'm using the mobi reader on a PC, to read "Alms for Jihad" - which has been banned in print.

I was able to open and read it just fine until Wednesday, when Mobi shut down. Now I can't open the book.

As near as I can tell, it's like Google shutting down their "Download to Own" movie service. If they want to turn the book off, they can.

The only way around it that I can find is doing screen captures of each page, as soon as you get the book.

Maybe yvanleterrible is correct. The book is all about how terror is financed, and one of the people who was doing the financing got the book banned. He's got a few extra billion. Could he pay to take out Mobi?
I'm rather baffled by this. Once you've downloaded a book, you don't need an internet connection to be able to read it (most MobiPocket books are read on PDAs with no internet connection). A downloaded book is "keyed" to the ID of the device it's being read on - it has no "contact" with the MobiPocket server once it's been downloaded.
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