Re: Adventures in Book Archiving

On 4/23/2025 12:56 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <robertaw-0310E7.09502323042025@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

I have run out of space for new books on my shelves and have no place to
put new shelves. Since I don't want to move, I have been preparing to
put books in storage. Thus, I have been downloading e-book editions of
books (so they will still be available to me when the hardcopy is in
storage). However, I have run into cases where books, published since
the late 1990s, don't have e-book editions. For example, Patricia
McKillip's _The Tower at Stoney Wood_, doesn't have one, while _The Book
of Atrix Wolfe_ and _Song of the Basilisk_, published before it, and
_Ombria in Shadow_ and others, published after it, all have e-book
editions. BTW, all were published by the same publisher.
>

 It may be the case there is no official ebook (though you might
try "Stony" vs "Stoney"), but I see 19 samizdat ones.
 

Yup, Anna's Archive for one. Though there, its 'The Tower at Stony Wood' (she was American).
I don't see a moral issue with downloading an e-copy of a book which
you have a paid paper copy of.
There may be a legal issue, though.
pt