WOWIO and quilting

Jul 23, 2007 2 Replies

For those not yet familiar with the WOWIO.com advertising-funded free ebooks in PDF format, this would be a good time to go look, as they just added nine books on quilting to their "recently added" category (upper right corner drop-down menu on the below URLed page):.



formatting link



This is limited to USofA residents, unfortunately, by the realities of where the advertisers want to pay to have their ads seen, and there are lots of fiddly details about signing up for the service, but my oh my does it work! I have downloaded more books already than I am likely to live long enough to finish reading, and they are adding new ebooks faster on average than they allow me to download books (5 per day limit).



Not only are the books "free for the downloading" for you, but you support the (in this case quilting) book authors, who get some pittance for each copy downloaded. Of many such pittances, though, can real wealth be comprised.



FYI



xanthian, pathetic WOWIO addict. No financial connection, yadda, yadda.



Being the cautious soul that I am, I checked this author's past posts, and he's not a known poster on this group, right? I admit I looove anything free, especially the prospect of free quilting patterns, but I don't want to load up my PC with adware or spyware or get spammed the rest of my life, so I passed on this. Does anyone know anything about this site?

Sherry

I did a quick search online, and it seems genuine enough. I also, being a Linux user, boldly went to the webapge and did a search for "quilt". Lots of books came up as free.

I think the concept is that the free books are the real books, but with adds added to them. I don't know if they would also email you spam, pretending you signed up for adds.

Unfortunately, it looks like they check your IP or something, and for copyright reasons only allow US residents access to the actual books.

Hanne in London

Join the Discussion

Have something to add? Share your thoughts — no account required.

Didn't find your answer?

Ask the community — no account required