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10-29-2003, 08:40 PM

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Edlin

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10-29-2003, 08:56 PM	#32
Edlin NX80v User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Adelaide Posts: 921	Mostly free, html, Alchemical texts http://www.levity.com/alchemy/texts.html __________________ What if the hokey pokey really -is- what it's all about Warm Fuzzy Feelings - Don't Click - People

10-29-2003, 09:02 PM	#33
Edlin NX80v User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Adelaide Posts: 921	Mary Jo's E-texts, Free, http://www.dogpatch.org/etext.html EDIT: This site has some great books, mainly 'childrens' liek 20 or so wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson, & Jack Snow. Also lots of Tom Swift series, Edith Nesbit, fan fiction, and as they say more. The only downside I`ve foudn at the site, is some of teh books are in .prc format (shudder). __________________ What if the hokey pokey really -is- what it's all about Warm Fuzzy Feelings - Don't Click - People

10-29-2003, 10:48 PM	#34
Edlin NX80v User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Adelaide Posts: 921	Free, Mainly poerty, ezine and amateur: http://www.etext.org __________________ What if the hokey pokey really -is- what it's all about Warm Fuzzy Feelings - Don't Click - People

10-30-2003, 06:28 PM	#35
caroln Registered User Bronze Contributor Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 76	Thanks for the additional link sites, Edlin and for your suggestion re PDABooks.org. I turned off my anti popup and don't believe I have any 'downloaders'. I was able to download the book on the link you provided but apart from that have still been unable to download anything else except empty folders (have tried about 6 books by different authors). If there are any other suggestions to try, I'd be grateful.

10-30-2003, 08:36 PM	#36
Edlin NX80v User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Adelaide Posts: 921	Okay... I might of been lucky and picked the working link at random from the book site. Could you copy n paste a link that doesnt work for you and I`ll try it. (or give me a book tittle to try). Then I might be better able to suss whats going wrong... __________________ What if the hokey pokey really -is- what it's all about Warm Fuzzy Feelings - Don't Click - People

10-31-2003, 01:19 PM	#37
caroln Registered User Bronze Contributor Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 76	Here's one (Trollop's Phineas Redux): http://www.pdabooks.org/index.php?t...id=2165&cat=528 It's very kind of you to be so helpful.

10-31-2003, 01:41 PM	#38
caroln Registered User Bronze Contributor Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 76	Here are 2 more, in case it helps to clarify anything. They all turned up empty. http://www.pdabooks.org/index.php?t...id=2121&cat=466 http://www.pdabooks.org/index.php?t...id=2118&cat=474 Thanks, Carol

11-02-2003, 04:46 AM	#39
Edlin NX80v User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Adelaide Posts: 921	Hiya Caroln, I tried the links you gave me and what do ya know, they worked. :\| Could download, extract & read.... The puzzler to me is why the other link I gave you worked though... so just to test something, try this link: http://beta.pdabooks.org/books/S/Sc...r_-_Ivanhoe.zip & see if its another empty for you. What operating system is on your computer (eg mac, win98, winxp etc). And what do you use to unzip folders (eg stuff it, winzip, Windows compressed folders etc). I think it could be something to do with what you use to extract the files, with whats going wrong. Espically if the filesize matches what it should be. There are plenty of different (& free) programs to unzip, so it will be pretty easy to test if thats whats wrong. smiles & no probs re being helpful __________________ What if the hokey pokey really -is- what it's all about Warm Fuzzy Feelings - Don't Click - People

11-02-2003, 07:48 AM	#40
caroln Registered User Bronze Contributor Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 76	Hi Edlin, This is a mystery; using your link I downloaded the Ivanhoe zipped folder but, again it was empty. I then tried using the Extract Wizard but it also found the folder empty. I have WinXP (Home Edition) which is able to open zipped folders using its Compressed Folders utility. I can successfully download zipped folders (from, e.g. Memoware, Handango, Palmgear), unzip with a double click on the zipped folder icon, and extract files using drag and drop. The odd thing about this is that, when I'm downloading these apparently empty folders, the download box looks normal; it causes the usual delay and shows the progress bar etc. When I first had this problem, I thought it might be because I hadn't registered and logged in at PDABooks. So, I did but it hasn't made a difference. Hope you can stay on the case, Sherlock. And thanks again.

11-02-2003, 07:10 PM	#41
Edlin NX80v User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Adelaide Posts: 921	Okay, I reckon we need to try a different unzip program. As a suggestion, try using IZarc: http://alien8.lunarpages.com/izarc/IZArc34.exe Hopefully that will open the zip files okay. Its a free program so its only going to cost time to try it. Its what I use, and it works well enough, and more importantly it reads the pdabooks.org files fine. I`m not a big fan of the built in compression/decompression with windows, though its does the job 98% of the time. It doesnt sound like your doing anything wrong, and if IZarc works, we probally should let PDAbooks know about this bug with Windows compressed folders. (not really thier fault either, but ya know...) __________________ What if the hokey pokey really -is- what it's all about Warm Fuzzy Feelings - Don't Click - People

11-03-2003, 05:09 PM	#42
caroln Registered User Bronze Contributor Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 76	SUCCESS!! It worked a treat. "Elementary" it may be to you; for me, it was great detective work. Sounded like a good idea to let PDABooks know about this so I sent an email to an address I found that I hope is correct (steele@pdabooks.org). Should know soon if it got there. Again, many thanks.

11-04-2003, 08:26 PM	#43
Edlin NX80v User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Adelaide Posts: 921	WooHoo Glad we got there Caroln! (brushes dust off hands) I`ll email pdabooks.org too __________________ What if the hokey pokey really -is- what it's all about Warm Fuzzy Feelings - Don't Click - People

11-05-2003, 01:05 PM	#44
caroln Registered User Bronze Contributor Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 76	Forget the dust - just pat yourself on the back, Super Sleuth ! Glad you're also emailing them, though I haven't had mine sent back so it's possible it got there. Can't tell you how pleased I am with the result -- it was also great fun playing Dr Watson. I'm amazed at the helpful spitit here. Thanks again!

11-12-2003, 03:30 PM	#45
gfunkmagic Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 283	Wow! Great links everybody! Thanks!