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[Cheryl Homiak]

I know there was an extensive thread on this a while back. I haven't been able
to downloade books in the past; this time i've downloaded from the sample page
but haven't tried a public domain book; i'm certainly not paying until I know
everything is accessible. I'm reading the instructions for downloading, and they
are talking about an "unpack tool" to be downloaded before starting to download
copyrighted book. does anybody know if this 'unpack tool" is necessary and, if
so, if it's exclusive to windows. has anybody been successfully downloading
copyrighted books from bookshare on linux?
As I say, I'm not putting out $75 dollars just to find myself locked out!