{"id":69,"date":"2007-11-08T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-01-26T06:58:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T14:58:02","slug":"youll-never-be-rid-of-me-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ll Never Be Rid Of Me Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was contacted a while back by a fellow named Nicholas Bennett, who had built a little java program for reading e-books off of cellphone displays.  He&#8217;d already ported a few hundred public domain titles onto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksinmyphone.com\/index.php\">this website<\/a> for free download (including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), and was hunting more recent, Creative Commons releases.  He wanted to add <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Blindsight<\/span> and the Rifters books; I told him to go ahead.  (I notice that Karl Schroeder&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksinmyphone.com\/index.php?titleSearch=ventus&amp;authorSearch=&amp;blurbSearch=\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ventus<\/span><\/a> is also up there).  One nifty little feature is that you don&#8217;t have to load a separate program; the reader is integrated into each downloadable book.<\/p>\n<p>I myself have not tried out these freebies because my cell \u2014 like my Internet connection, my landline, and my cable \u2014 all hail from Rogers, and Rogers (being the avaricious and duplicitous scumbags that they are) sold me a phone that only plugs into a proprietary Rogers cord that costs an additional eighty bucks, which I refuse to pay.  (I could surf wirelessly, but even the otherwise-sleazy salesperson who sold me the phone warned me that Roger&#8217;s charge for that service would take me up the ass like a Carlsbad Stalactite.)<sup>1<\/sup> But I admit I&#8217;m curious, so if someone out there wants to try out this product and let me know how it runs, I&#8217;d be grateful.  My cellphone-ready books are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksinmyphone.com\/index.php?author=Peter%20Watts\">here<\/a>; download instructions, over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksinmyphone.com\/?list=gettingitonyourphone\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup>1<\/sup> I really, really hate Rogers.  I hate them as much as I hate Dell.  By the end of this month I hope to be free of them forever.  Except for Cable.  Still no real alternative for cable.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was contacted a while back by a fellow named Nicholas Bennett, who had built a little java program for reading e-books off of cellphone displays. He&#8217;d already ported a few hundred public domain titles onto this website for free download (including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), and was hunting more recent, Creative Commons releases. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}