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General Topics => Books => Topic started by: SteveJ on October 31, 2011, 19:37:43 PM
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I've just responded to Kayakebab about the book that she was trying to find called "The Red Tent". I have an electronic copy of this book so I've just attached it to an email and sent it to her. All she will have to do is detach it from the email onto her PC hard drive and then she can use a free ebook manager such as Calibre to read it on the computer screen or transfer it to an ereader such as the Kindle.
From the responses to the recent thread about "which Kindle to buy" it would seem that there are quite a few Kindle owners on here so I was wondering how many realise that ebooks can be exchanged quite simply and quickly via email?
Connect your Kindle to the PC via a USB port and it will appear as an external drive. Compose an email to whoever you want to send the ebook to, attach the book from your Kindle to the email just as you would with any other type of file or docuement and then just send it off. All the recipient has to do is the same process in reverse and they will have a copy of your book on their PC or Kindle - simples :)
I can heartily recommend a book called "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein. If anyone would like an electronic copy then email me via my profile and I'll send you a copy by return email. Here's a summary so you can see if it would be to your literary taste.
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people--a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic--who become the rebel movement's leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is one of the high points of modern science fiction, a novel bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom.
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Steve thanks for the top tip on the e-books. Wonder if there is any merit in setting up an e-book exchange here on the forum, I'll send a begging mail to Scunner, who is of course one of life's generous and all-round good blokes ;)
I'll decline this week's recommended read by your good self though, but if you get anything in the historical or thriller genres I'm yer man. :)
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Couldn't the e-book exchange just as easily be done by email between members.[?]
Just a thought :)
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How would it work via email John? I don't know what type of book you might be interested in so there's no point in me emailing you to tell you that I've got a selection of Sci-Fi novels and you don't know what I've got available so there's no point in you emailing me to see if I've got Brigadoon. :D
but I do have 955 ebooks indexed on a spreadsheet by title and author if anyone wants a copy. ;)
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UBT - send me the names of some authors or book titles and I'll see if I can help you.
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How do you envisage it working on the Forum then Steve. Sorry, I may well be in thicko mood this evening.
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In exactly the same way as when someone posts a recommendation / review of a paper book in this section. The only difference with an ebook recommendation is that if someone then wants a copy of the ebook it can be sent to them via email.
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great idea Steve J - I also have a few thousand "books" on DVD that will be available.
The hard bit will be finding out what people want - hope you can set something up.
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Good idea Steve, 3 more in favour, Jackie,Bill & Myself 8)
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Originally posted by SteveJ
In exactly the same way as when someone posts a recommendation / review of a paper book in this section. The only difference with an ebook recommendation is that if someone then wants a copy of the ebook it can be sent to them via email.
Thanks SteveJ - it was just that your reply to usedbusticket was how I imagined it would work. Could it be done in this section then.
Good luck with it anyway :)
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H I think your probably right that this is the correct section, and we do not need to bother Keith. So I'll make the first post for the e-book swap shop in a separate pots.
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To avoid swamping this section with 'offers of' and 'requests for' I propose that I should create a Master Library Index that members can request from me. Each entry will identify the 'owner' who then can be contacted separately with a request for a copy to be sent via email.
Over the next few days I'll get this Index together and then post on here when it's available.
UBT / Jim - do you have catalogues/lists of your ebooks that you could send to me? I'll add them to mine to generate the index and that should give us a few thousand to start with and we can add to it as more people get on board.
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Hi Mark (ribeye100)
did you eat the bananas I left out for you?
apols for "off topic"
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Originally posted by SteveJ
To avoid swamping this section with 'offers of' and 'requests for'....
....who then can be contacted separately with a request for a copy to be sent via email.
So the e-book exchange will be done by email between members ;)
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H - I know where you are going with this one - stop it! :D
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Hi Steve, I didnt receive the email from you with the Red Tent, could you retry?
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Linda - I'll send it again this evening between 18:00 and 18:30 UK time.
SteveJ
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Linda - I'm using your hotmail addy from your profile is this the correct one to use?
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Jackste - can you let me know if your book arrives ok?
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Originally posted by SteveJ
H - I know where you are going with this one - stop it! :D
Will do SteveJ. Enjoy your swapping:D
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I.T. challenged here - will this work with ipad2 and e-reader as well ?
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Steve - I do not have a list of titles, will be over in Fethiye later this month with the discs, I will start to get the titles in some kind of order then.
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Sue if you download the Calibre software application (its free)it will manage your e-book library and convert very easily from one format to another. All you do when you install it is say what type of device you mainly use and this becomes the default.
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Ok, Done it.
Steve very kindly sent me an e.book. I have now downloaded Calibre and can read it on my PC.
Can format to my Sony format but have not yet down loaded it to Sony Reader. (second stage)
Kindly send all your e.books to my e.mail address and I can spend some time in reading bliss.
Steve
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Jim
It would help me greatly if you could sort the list in this order,
Author Surname, Author firstname. Title, Genre (if you know it)
For eanmple.
Pratchett, Terry, Going Postal, Fantasy
Tonight I've received a list of ebooks from Happy Monday so I'm beaving away collating them into a catalogue. 2,000 catalogued, 8,000 to go. Thanks Doug!!:D
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The catalogue of 'ebooks for sharing' now stands at 3,012 so I'm going to assume that even the most discerning reader out there will be able to find something to their liking in that lot. There are still 7,681 books to catalogue and I've only done my collection and some of HappyMonday's. There's still Jim Fraser's list to add and if anyone else wants to add their ebooks to the catalogue then send me a list in the format that I gave to Jim in a previous post.
OK so here's how to get your ehands on a free ebook.....
1. First get yourself a copy of the catalogue by sending me an email via my profile. Just put "Ebook catalogue please" as the title, there's no need to include any text. I will send you an MS EXCEL spreadsheet as I've assumed that most people will have EXCEL on their PC's. If you don't and have no way of converting it then get in touch with me and I'll fathom a way of getting it into another format that your PC will read (.csv probably)
2. I'll keep updating the list and every now and again resend it to everyone who has ordered a copy.
3. If you find a book that you want then send an email to the "OWNER" via their CBF profile. The important thing to note is that it's for CBF members only so if an ebook owner gets a request which doesn't start with "Sent from Calis Beach and Fethiye Discussion Forum" it will be ignored, which means that there's no point in giving the list to your friends in the pub and telling them to email some sucker called SteveJ and he will send them a free book :D
4. The Owner will reply to your email with the book attached. You can then detach the book to a folder on your PC. You can read it from there or transfer it to your ereader of choice. If you need to convert into a different format for your particular ereader then I recommend Calibre for this purpose.
Who's going to be first?
Regards, SteveJ
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Nice one Steve
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I love this idea - Brill idea
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Originally posted by HappyMonday
Sue if you download the Calibre software application (its free)it will manage your e-book library and convert very easily from one format to another. All you do when you install it is say what type of device you mainly use and this becomes the default.
Thanks Happy will try that when I get home
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Well I am really chuffed - followed the instructions - connected my Kindle to Calibre - selected send to device and I don't know how it knew which device and how it knew the format for Kindle BUT I now have 2 books by my favourite author (Michael Connelly) for FREE
Thanks to Steve and anyone else involved.
Now I only have about 35 paid for books on my Kindle - would you like to give me directions on how to send them to you as I feel I will have contributed but I will be guided by you.
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Hi Ian,
Thanks for taking the trouble to post. I'm pleased that now we know the process works. It's about to get even easier because thanks to a suggestion from Loz I've arranged with Keith to store the catalogue on the CBF server and Keith will post a link to it so that you can go directly to it from CBF without having to email me for a copy. The catalogue now stands at 8,000 ebooks and rising.
To get your own ebooks added to the catalogue simply email me a list, either in the email if it's a short list (<100) or in an attached file if it's a big'un. Each book should be listed in the format......
Author Surname, Author first name(s) or initials, title,genre.
For example : Pratchett, Terry, Going Postal, Fantasy
Genre is useful because peple will then be able to filter the cataloue on their particular preference be that Science Fiction, Biography, Romance etc. If you don't know the genre just leave this blank and we can get these added over time.
Regards, SteveJ
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I forgot to add, it doesn't matter if you've got a one ebook or thousands, you can send me the details. You never know, yours may just be the ebook that someone else has been searching for. :)
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I like the Genre for Bill Clintons Autobiography "My Life" Fiction Action and adventure!
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and on the same note Barack Obama "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" under Fiction, General, Fiction
:D
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GB - the genre gets put on automatically when the books are catalogued by Calibre and it gets the genre tag from the file.
Most of the ebooks belonging to HappyMonday are tagged as "Sci-Fi, Fantasy" because that was the name of the file that he sent to me.
I'll correct as many as I can but with 8,000 to go at it might take some time (years?) to get the whole catalogue in tip top shape.
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Has anyone tried the link to the ebook catalogue that Keith has put on? Did it work ok?
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There's also a .pdf version of the catalogue for Mac users and those who don't have EXCEL. Email me via my profile if you want a copy.
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Originally posted by SteveJ
GB - the genre gets put on automatically when the books are catalogued by Calibre and it gets the genre tag from the file.
Most of the ebooks belonging to HappyMonday are tagged as "Sci-Fi, Fantasy" because that was the name of the file that he sent to me.
I'll correct as many as I can but with 8,000 to go at it might take some time (years?) to get the whole catalogue in tip top shape.
It just made me laugh that both titles came under fiction 8)
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Originally posted by SteveJ
Has anyone tried the link to the ebook catalogue that Keith has put on? Did it work ok?
Where is the link - did I miss it???? 8)
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If you look in the forum list, the one below this one (General Topics - Books) is now a direct link to the file. It would make sense to put the link in here too, so here it is: http://www.calisvilla.co.uk/EbookLibrary.xls
Click that and the download should start.
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Ian - you and everyone else I think. :)
I've finished my collection and HappyMonday's so the total now stands at 10,337 ebooks. I've had offers of more collections so these will be added as soon as I get them.
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If you are not sure about a book then typing the title into a google search will usually provide you with a few reviews to ponder over. I was considering "The Dark Light Years" by Brian Aldiss for my kindle and a quick search on google found a review on SFReviews.net which was enough to convince me that it was going to be right up my street.....
"In my more introspective moments, I find myself wondering how anyone could possibly not love a novel with dialogue like, "I pronounce all this to be land belonging to the Triple Suns. Let defecation commence." The Dark Light-Years is, forty years after it was first published, still one of the most biting and hilarious satirical SF novels ever written.
What if the human race encountered an extraterrestrial species that was clearly advanced, in many ways beyond anything we could possibly imagine — and yet what if their ways and customs contravened everything we considered to be endemic to a civilized, sapient culture? The Utods are just such a species. Both philosophically and technologically advanced beyond our understanding (their spaceships are made of wood!), they literally wallow in their own filth. Defecation is tied into everything — religious ritual, family bonding, even basic communication.
So it should come as no surprise that when humans first encounter these beings, we consider them dumb animals and shoot them full of holes."
:D
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I'm still getting email requests for the catalogue. I've sent the latest version out to everyone who has asked for one but as Keith has gone to so much trouble to put a couple of links on here for everyone's convenience it seems rude not to use them (and you won't have to wait for me to respond) ;)
SteveJ
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I already have the list via email. but the link won,t open for me.
Fran
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Don't worry Fran - I think I can see Keith riding to the rescue. :D
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Into the distance actually
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Ok new improved version is uploaded as of 4 seconds ago so download the new file. Download link is working fine - if anyone has a problem it could be downloading in the background so check your downloads folder, it may well be sitting in there. Also search for the filename on your computer - EbookLibrary
http://www.calisvilla.co.uk/EbookLibrary.xls
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A spreadsheet with over four thousand ebooks arrived last night from CBF member Shrek, there were some duplicates which I haven't added but even so the grand total now stands at 13,228 ebooks.
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Oh bugger - I've just noticed that somewhere between A and C the list of authors surnames has dropped by one line. I noticed it because according to the catalogue Jonathan Carroll wrote Alice in wonderland and Lewis Carroll wrote From Eternity to Here.:D
Fixed in next version (hopefully).
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Thanks for doing all this Steve - just saved the latest list on the CBF server to my computer and as soon as I get my Kindle I'll be in touch with the owners of Lee Child and James Patterson books :)
Will share any books I get too as soon I have them to share...
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Hi Nicola,
If you don't want to wait you can read them on your PC using applications such as "Calibre" or "Kindle for PC" but not as portable as a Kindle I'll admit.:D
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Originally posted by SteveJ
Oh bugger - I've just noticed that somewhere between A and C the list of authors surnames has dropped by one line. I noticed it because according to the catalogue Jonathan Carroll wrote Alice in wonderland and Lewis Carroll wrote From Eternity to Here.:D
Fixed in next version (hopefully).
Fixed version is now uploaded.
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Thanks Keith, really handy to have it online on the forum like this; thanks too Steve, I am after holiday reading so no hurry, plus I have stacks of real paper books to read for now ;)
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What a brilliant idea,and for any one who has not got MS Excel,you can get a free download of excel viewer to open the library download,I did it a short while ago,took 5mins. :)
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All those books and not one Peter James:(
I'm looking for a copy of 'Dead Tomorrow' for my Kindle.
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I have just looked it up on Amazon and I am sure I saw the cover when I looked through a list of free stuff I was given. Unfortunatly it is not well organised like Steve's stuff so don't buy it till I get back to you. will be tonight.:D
I am trying to work out how to share this list.
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I've got all Peter James' books in paperback only I'm afraid. However, I have purchased his new one, Perfect People from Amazon. Just reading it now. Totally different but fascinating! I am totally stupid on working out how to put them into email format. I will happily add that to this list if there is an idiot guide to do it!
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Sorry Stoop I have Dead Simple and Dead man's grip. The one you are looking for is on Amazon for 4.32. There is an author Nora Roberts who also writes as JD Robb and the picture on your book is similar to one of hers.
Sorry I got it wrong.
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Cheers you two :)
Ill hang on a little longer.
Lynne - I think you need to plug your kndle in via the usb lead and then open it up like you would with any hard drive attatched (my computer then the drive which is the kindle). Then you can download the book onto your desktop (make a new folder for kindle books). Once you have it on there you can send it to me by email as an attachment I think. I'll send you my email addy asap.
Stu
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Stoop I am in the process of downloading from the memory stick to the computer. Can I send it to you to see if it works?
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i have just learnt i think to take my books of my kindle to my desktop ready to swop ,could i send one to someone to see if i have done it properly i will just randomly choose one for a practise run thanks
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Send to me Flo.
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Ok, I had a problem with that anybody else want to try?????????/
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Yes please Heather. I'll send you my email addy.
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I managed to download one but have sent them anyway. My kindle was charging so not sure if that is what caused the problem
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Right - not sure if this has been mentioned over the previous 7 pages but Kindle books don't open if they are registered to another Kindle. I have the books on my desktop and have tried both dropping them into my Kindle and using Calibre to convert them but it says they are DRM protected. Is there any way around this protection or are the books only good for the person who bought them?
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Stoop - I couldn't possibly (or publically) condone the removal of DRM protection from a legally purchased ebook so I'll email you this evening. :)
Removing the DRM Wrapper is only 'legal' (ish) if your intention in doing so is so that you can read it on an ereader which doesn't support the original format. For example when you have purchased an ebook from Amazon but your reader doesn't read .mobi files. Once converted into an unprotected format it's for use by the original purchaser only and any subsequent distribution or sharing (i.e. via CBF) is illegal.
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BTW - as far as I'm aware (I haven't personally checked all 13,280) all the books in the Ebook Catalogue are not DRM protected and can be shared without fear of
persecution. prosecution.
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Thanks Steve,
I look forward to that email :)
I do have an e-reader on our ipad so I could do with getting them on there to read.
Thanks
Stu
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I am able to read one of the books that Debra sent. Will tell you about the rest when I remember what I did to get the rest downloaded
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There have been numerous problems with the Tiscali email system since they upgraded it recently. I can see in my inbox that a number of people have sent emails to me but I can't open them. I've complained to Tiscali and their advice is to try again in 24hours so please be patient if you have requested ebooks from me. :)
Allybally - please send me your catalogue list, a word doc will be fine. BTW I got a delivery failure notification from my attempt to respond to your email and it said that the server used was a known source of spam - you may care to check this out with your ISP. Once I get back up and running I'l send you the full details.
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The good news is that Tiscali fixed their email problems sometime during the early hours of this morning. The bad news is that their fix has wiped out both my inbox and sentbox so I'm going to have to rely on my memory about who sent me ebook requests. For those who don't know me, this isn't my best feature.
1. Stoop - I'll email you this evening about the DRM stuff.
2. DJM001 (Dave Moore?) - you can download the ebook catalogue from the link below this section.
3. Allybally - you wanted a Terry Pratchett book but I can't remember which one, please email me again. Also send me your list of books so that I can add them to the catalogue.
4. Someone wanted five or six James Patterson books - please email me again with the list.
If anyone else has email'd me since Sunday please resend your email.
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To take a bit of pressure off Steve - whoever wanted James Patterson books email me and I will send to you.
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Thanks for the offer Doug but it was all sorted last night. There seemed to be a flurry of requests which coincided with my email system going belly up but I'm back on the air now and all books have been dispatched.
Regards, SteveJ
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i am trying to get hold of the ebook catalogue but it wont let me send personal messages can anyone help
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You are a new member Kaimitch. 8)
You can't send an e mail to members with just one post. Otherwise people would only think you had joined to get free e-books
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Good morning Cheers,I have been a member for over a year now I am just a quiet observer and certainly did not join just to take advantage of free e-books.
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Just to explain - the need to have made a certain number of posts before you can contact other members via the forum is not one to make members post, or to stop members contacting each other - it is necessary because we have people join (with no interest in Calis) who then start emailing everyone with spam rubbish before we even suspect a thing. Requiring a few contributions simply stops this happening completely - and that is for the good of everyone.
But with your last post kaimitch, you have made enough posts now :)
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Kaimitch - have you tried the link in the section below this one? You can just download the ebook catalogue from there.
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Thank you Scunner
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Done and dusted,cheers Steve