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50 points

I really hope the rest of the archive comes back soon. I was in the middle of a book and it was a book I hadn’t read since I was a kid.

Yeah, I could pay for it or wait for it to come via interlibrary loan (it’s not exactly a well-known book), but I really didn’t need a physical copy. And it isn’t even all that long.

Sigh.

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Damn it’d be a shame if someone DM’ed me the name of the book and I had to go looking to see if there’s an epub/pdf version available for download in certain places. A real shame indeed.

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12 points

I don’t care saying what book it is right here, because I’ve looked for both and came up wanting. It’s not available normally as an ebook for purchase, so I have my doubts.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/997118.Doktor_Bey_s_handbooks_of_strange_sex

Basically, the IA had it because they scan in masses of texts without even caring what they are. As long as they get a copy and it isn’t in the archive yet, they’ll scan it in.

FWIW, it’s pretty amusing.

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15 points

Oh thats a super off the wall book. It barely exists anywhere let alone an ebook. I stand corrected and humbled.

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9 points

I got you fam, dm you a link in 1 sec.

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10 points

That’s why I download everything

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4 points

Downloading books you have to borrow from the IA is not easy these days.

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3 points

Other sides

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