Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:18:05 -0600 Message-ID: <56AFD9A6.12E3@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:18:14 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Hey Odd! References: <56AF1152.65BE@ix.netcom.com> <56AF18FE.2126@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 106 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.239.141.5 X-Trace: sv3-9QkicRqMGI7GUyRhZIuwkjKunUyxQVuHScoZ+/dxoHDIbJAqflgWct6WWChByzWvt73gHxcPMBoymAD!gYgNTqvHmllJq2whJtwP/ts6iZrEGlJvrtlduJYGvA8eTF4Z80/T+ZS4drPPJRCyT1JY+S1K/Wjz!tz579C78uQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 5364 X-Received-Bytes: 5476 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1973465178 Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:281696 sci.physics:549819 sci.physics.relativity:375382 rec.arts.sf.written:432471 The Starmaker wrote: > > The Starmaker wrote: > > > > Fabian Russell wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:48:23 -0600, Odd Bodkin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I have no problem with books. I own both paper and digital books. I do > > > > have a problem with greed and the Collector's Obsession. I do have a > > > > problem with stealing to feed the Collector's Obsession. I do have a > > > > problem with those who would rationalize and excuse their thefts, > > > > claiming somehow this is the manly thing to do. > > > > > > > > > > Obsession? Theft? You are pulling things out of the air again, > > > and that's a bad habit. > > > > > > Take a deep breath. Get a grip on reality. > > > > > > Then start building your own E-LOC and learn to love it. > > > > It's called, trying to diminish you...den·i·grate. It's how Donald Trump deals with those that oppose him. > > > > The Internet wishes to be free. That means the internet has a strong desire for > > information in any form to be free...music, movies, books, ideas. > > > > For example, epub. > > > > actually is a zip file filled with html files. > > > > Just change the extension of any epub from xxxxx.epub to .xxxxx.zip > > > > then unzip it. > > > > For example, some directory publisher published a directory book, > > how do you extract all email addresses and data from the pages of a big directory ? > > then finally came out with a epub of the book. > > > > Now, unzipping it gave me access to all it's email addresses, and names and address > > in this directory that is easily extracted. > > > > The Internet wishes to be free. > > > > (i bet a million dollars that if the publisher knew that > > his book can be uzipped and information extracted easily in a second, he would have never had it > > turn into a ebook.) > > > > The Internet wishes to be free. > > Like for an example...here is a real world example.. > > there is a book called: > > Writer's Market 2016: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published 95th Edition > > At Amazon they have the Book and the ebook epub version. > > You can take the epub, change the extension to zip and you have > all the email address and names and addresses you need to market your science fiction stories in a second. > > http://www.amazon.com/Writers-Market-2016-Trusted-Published/dp/1599639378/ref=pd_sim_14_5?ie=UTF8&dpID=51Tq-Z193qL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR122%2C160_&refRID=1J134H9SAFRQAXNFGYCS > > (of course the epub is avaialbe for free if you know where to look, the internet wishes to be free) > > Writers.Market.2016.The.Most.Trusted.Guide.to.Getting.Published.epub > > email extraction tools somebody gave me a barnes and noble gift card, but i don't know what book to buy because every book i want to read is free on the internet!!! The Internet wishes to be free. even magazines.. what am i gonna do wit dis barnes and noble gift card???? wat is a lit format? http://satdude.com/4don/%5Bebooks%5D%201000+%20ScienceFiction%20&%20Fantasy%20Novels%20%28.lit%20format%29/ https://www.google.com/#q=indexof%2F:+epub+mobi what am i gonna do wit dis barnes and noble gift card???? Maybe I should go and see the wizard of ODD... i can ask for a brain while i'm at it? do you think the ODD will give me a brain? what am i gonna do wit dis barnes and noble gift card???? I go to Barnes and Noble book store near me to see what new books they have... then i go on the internet and Bingo, it's on epub already??? what am i gonna do wit dis barnes and noble gift card????