Manybooks.net expected to be back online Monday
From Matt McClintock, owner of the wonderful Manybooks.net—home of thousands of free classics and other e-books in multiple formats…
"Sorry for the delay—yep, I’m out of town, but not on vacation (unfortunately).
The night before I left on this trip there was a monster electrical storm and tornado in the area.
"Manybooks.net made it through that alright, with a few reboots, but power to the entire neighborhood was shut off the day after I left, and when the systems were rebooted things looked kind of messed up.
"So, manybooks will be down until Monday.
"I’ve been looking at hosting plans and other solutions to keep manybooks going in a more reliable way, but life keeps getting in the way. A week or two of calm is all I’ll need."
Moderator’s reminder for owners of the iPhone and iPod Touch: Manybooks.net will work with both the eReader program and Stanza (via the Mac or PC desktop companion app) – D.R.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Thanks for the update – been wondering what was wrong with the site which is my favorite following the demise of “blackmask”.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
It was up last night, but each thing I tried to download in .mobi format would download as 0 (zero) bytes.
Today I keep getting a page not found error. So I guess there are still a few hamsters that need to be woken up.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
The site and downloading were working for mobi prc format, at least, tonight.
September 17th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Sorry about that folks — there’s a combination of flakey DSL/router issues, combined with some big storms, thrown together with the fun of packing up everything we own for a move across the country. I’m doing my best to get the site in shape for a shift to a co-location facility, but until that’s complete I hope you’ll be patient (and try again if the site is down!).
September 18th, 2008 at 4:31 am
Hey im a big fan of ur site and hope that ur site will be online. By the way thanks a lot for providing us such a nice collection of ebooks
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:45 am
The site seems to be down again for a while now, but I keep checking back. I hope, Matt, that you’re able to keep it going – a wonderful service.
November 7th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Sorry to hear of your tribulations. I love the site. Best I’ve found! I’ve over 3k downloads of my book 2012. I’m working on another which i will send – God knows when!