Orson Scott Card's new book, Ender in Exile
(list price $25.95, available for $17.13 from amazon.com as of this writing), has been found to be freely available in PDF form on the World Wide Web.The caveat?
You most likely have to own a copy of Ender in Exile before you'll be able to find the PDF version.
Here's how I discovered it.
I pride myself on recognizing the vast majority of words in the books that I read, and I'm the type of reader that likes to look up any words that I don't know. The Amazon Kindle makes this easy, because it's got a built-in dictionary and you can look up words immediately:
So as I was reading Orson Scott Card's latest book, I came upon a word I didn't know.
I asked my Kindle (which I'd downloaded Ender in Exile on for only $9.99) to look it up - and it didn't know it, either.
I then typed it into the search engine - and only seven search results appeared in almighty Google.
And one of them happened to be the entire manuscript (minus pictures) of Ender in Exile, in PDF form. Since my wife also loves Orson Scott Card, I downloaded the PDF so we could both read the same book at the same time: she on the Kindle, I on the Apple MacBook Air
.Can you find the manuscript, too? Do you know what word I looked up?
