tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479545008619839492012-01-25T18:00:33.513-08:00Orson Scott Card's 'Ender In Exile' LeakedFreely available on the Internet... if you know what to look for.The Bloggernoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-947954500861983949.post-63060265850788210422009-01-02T05:41:00.000-08:002009-01-02T06:01:13.646-08:00Get 'Ender in Exile' for free...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GO_YMkBUkW8/SV4dd4LbnaI/AAAAAAAAAGE/fEGxTQHCUAE/s1600-h/OSCenderinexile.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 245px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GO_YMkBUkW8/SV4dd4LbnaI/AAAAAAAAAGE/fEGxTQHCUAE/s320/OSCenderinexile.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286695411713285538" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Orson Scott Card's new book, <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765304961?ie=UTF8&tag=asiansinc&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0765304961">Ender in Exile</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=asiansinc&l=as2&o=1&a=0765304961" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; font-style: italic;" width="1" border="0" height="1" /> (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.<br /><br />The caveat?<br /><br />You most likely have to own a copy of <span style="font-style: italic;">Ender in Exile</span> before you'll be able to find the PDF version.<br /><br />Here's how I discovered it.<br /><br />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:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=asiansinc&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000FI73MA&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width: 120px; height: 240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><br />So as I was reading Orson Scott Card's latest book, I came upon a word I didn't know.<br /><br />I asked my Kindle (which I'd downloaded <span style="font-style: italic;">Ender in Exile</span> on for only $9.99) to look it up - and it didn't know it, either.<br /><br />I then typed it into the search engine - and only seven search results appeared in almighty Google.<br /><br />And one of them happened to be the entire manuscript (minus pictures) of <span style="font-style: italic;">Ender in Exile</span>, 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 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006HU4DK?ie=UTF8&tag=asiansinc&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0006HU4DK">Apple MacBook Air</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=asiansinc&l=as2&o=1&a=B0006HU4DK" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" border="0" height="1" />.<br /><br />Can you find the manuscript, too? Do you know what word I looked up?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/947954500861983949-6306026585078821042?l=enderinexile.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Bloggernoreply@blogger.com0