Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie Free for 1 day (if you are quick)

[weateallthepies]

24 Hour Free Promotional Download

A free promotional download will become available in the UK for 24 hours from 12 noon BST 22 April to 12 noon BST 23 April. To access the download, you will need to provide your email. By entering your email address, you agree that the Bloomsbury Group can send you occasional promotional emails about our books. We will not share your details with other companies.

UK iPhone and iTouch users will be able to access the download with Stanza through iTunes.

http://www.bloomsbury.com/orange/

Says UK so unfortunately there might be IP filtering for those of you not in this green and pleasant land.

[Curly]

Great find! Thanks for posting! I wonder what other formats it will be in?

[weateallthepies]

Originally Posted by Curly

Great find! Thanks for posting! I wonder what other formats it will be in?

No problem. For those that are interested I usually blog any free ebooks I find (among other free and random things) at http://www.weateallthepies.com/ but I'll stick them here too from now on.

[Drake]

Oh well, it is a PDF-File of 1,2 MB size.
373 pages of text.
AND it is downloadable outside of Great Britain also.

[Sporadic]

And there are birds in the background on every page which is causing the Kindle converter and Mobipocket Creator to go insane while trying to convert it :/

[kacir]

Originally Posted by Curly

Great find! Thanks for posting! I wonder what other formats it will be in?

Not that I want to inspect the state of the teeth of the proverbial gift horse, but ...

Yes, as usual it is a PDF
As unuseable as they get.

Horrible, *horrible*, HORRIBLE.
- page size 190.5 x 272.8mm
- extremely wide page margins approx. 40mm left and right, 50mm top and 30mm botton
- text unrelated to the book in the header and footer
- grey "watermark" picture (several objects) in background behind text on EACH PAGE (OCR engines are gona love that one!)
- "left" and "right" page have a little bit different sized margins to make automated removal of said wide margins much, much more interesting ;-)
- even if you print it out, the text occupies only 40% of the page.

<sigh...>
when will they learn?

[Curly]

Nope, wouldn't recommend it. Calibre doesn't like the birdies and the pdf causes my reader to freeze when trying to enlarge to medium.

[weateallthepies]

Originally Posted by kacir

Not that I want to inspect the state of the teeth of the proverbial gift horse, but ...

Yes, as usual it is a PDF
As unuseable as they get.

Horrible, *horrible*, HORRIBLE.
- page size 190.5 x 272.8mm
- extremely wide page margins approx. 40mm left and right, 50mm top and 30mm botton
- text unrelated to the book in the header and footer
- grey "watermark" picture (several objects) in background behind text on EACH PAGE (OCR engines are gona love that one!)
- "left" and "right" page have a little bit different sized margins to make automated removal of said wide margins much, much more interesting ;-)
- even if you print it out, the text occupies only 40% of the page.

<sigh...>
when will they learn?

Indeed, I was holding out for anything but pdf but sadly they have done the usual.

Why does everyone like PDF so much? I guess they are print companies but surely they must do some research into ebooks and formats.

[JSWolf]

If there is an email address, I do think we should all send a message saying how bad the PDF is and pointing to this thread.

[DixieGal]

Is the book any good? If it is good, I'd like to give it a try. But not for free, if they insist on sending SPAM emails. Neither my bust nor penis need enlarging, thank you very much.

If it's good, just show me where to anonymously buy it.

The summary looks like something that I would read straight through over a weekend, wouldn't want to put it down.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Is the book any good? If it is good, I'd like to give it a try. But not for free, if they insist on sending SPAM emails. Neither my bust nor penis need enlarging, thank you very much.

If it's good, just show me where to anonymously buy it.

Simple solution....

Go to your ISP and setup another email address. Then use it to get this book and then delete the account. Works quite well for places you need to use an email address but don't actually want any email.

[weateallthepies]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Simple solution....

Go to your ISP and setup another email address. Then use it to get this book and then delete the account. Works quite well for places you need to use an email address but don't actually want any email.

Or just enter anything@anything.com because it just gives you a link to download rather than emailing it to you and they won't have any kind of valid mail checking.

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Simple solution....

Go to your ISP and setup another email address. Then use it to get this book and then delete the account. Works quite well for places you need to use an email address but don't actually want any email.

Oh DUH! I forgot that I have that already, just for such an occasion. My bellsouth.net address, if I can remember the first part. Thanks for the reminder.

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by weateallthepies

Or just enter anything@anything.com because it just gives you a link to download rather than emailing it to you and they won't have any kind of valid mail checking.

[kacir]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

But not for free, if they insist on sending SPAM emails.

just use anemail address:
any_invented_name.mailinator.com

example:
lsakfjalsdjfkl@mailinator.com
ThisAddressDoesNotExist@mailinator.com
justme@mailinator.com

visit www.mailinator.com for better explanation.
Please notice that maininator has many aliases, in case some administrator learns about mailinator and filters its addresses. Again, see mailinator.com for details.

when you enter a mailinator address you are sent to a download page.