I heard in the news that after selling something like $500,000 worth of copies of "Riding the Bullet", somebody had figured out the hack, so I went searching for a copy and discovered you can still get it free at Amazon.

You have to download the reader software, which prevents copying, but it didn't take too long. For die-hard fans who haven't read it yet, it might be worth the effort.

go here to download

Enjoy!

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), April 12, 2000

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Hawk!

I'm cheating as it is. I'm supposed to be reading my school books. But that's no fun =o)

-- cin (cinloo@aol.corn), April 13, 2000.

I noticed that was available free the other day, Hawk, but I was concerned about the size of the reader required. Did it take a lot of space? I already had to delete some games my son had on the PC to download free tax software. He reminds me sometimes of some old COBOL programmers I followed on Y2k projects. He NEVER cleans up the old, unused stuff.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), April 13, 2000.

So I upgraded my Acrobat (I use a mac) and downloaded the story from Amazon. The reader is about 4 megs and the story is a meg or less.

It's 68 pages and I set out to print 20 or 30 pages to read before bed. Rottsa Ruck! The printing function is disabled on the security setting of the document. And it won't let me select and copy text, either.

Like I am going to sit here and read 68 pages. Maybe I'll get a really long cable and curl up with my 17 inch monitor. Or perhaps I'll buy a laptop so I can read my free online book.

Anyone know a url for a printable version? Or what was that trick that *sigh*Diane used to use to convert pdf to text?

-- semper paratus (here_with@my.pals), April 14, 2000.

semper, unfortunately I think that is the whole reason that you get the story for free, they want to train you to use their software so that you might start to like it and buy it someday. I looked for a hacked copy but haven't found one yet. Well, when you consider all the time we spend reading this forum, it shouldn't be that hard to read the book.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), April 15, 2000.

Hawk,

You are certainly right about that. 68 pages is no big deal to read. It's just that King is best read curled up, alone, at night. Preferably during a thunderstorm.

Thanks for saving me the time of searching for a hacked copy.

-- semper paratus (here_with@my.pals), April 15, 2000.

Semper:

Are you suggesting that Adobe's Acrobat reader was the reader required? When I read about it, the name was something like Glass Reader.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), April 15, 2000.

semper,

yeah, i know what ya mean! Read it late at night with all the lights turned off. :-)

Anita,

semper is using a Mac.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), April 15, 2000.

Anita,

The Glassbook Reader is only made for Win 9x, so to accomodate Mac users, they made it available on ,pdf, but it is a special upgrade just for Macs.

BTW, I went to the Amazon download area and found that the Glassbook reader is 6.7 megs.

-- semper paratus (here_with@my.pals), April 15, 2000.

Yeah, pretty amazing. I don't see why it needs to be so big, considering what it does. Guess that's what they call bad software design. After I read the King book, to the trash it goes!

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), April 15, 2000.