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Old 10-21-2010
What happened to coolerbooks?

I just found the website coolerbooks.com a couple weeks ago. It was a site that had loads of free ebooks for download.

But now it seems to have been hijacked by some Microsoft search thing.

There was an article last year claiming it teamed with Google (the anti-Microsoft!) to offer the million books available on google books to become the biggest ebookstore. Great!

But now it seems to be gone. I googled for news and found none.

Anyone else hear anything?
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Old 10-21-2010
Whatever it was, was recent enough for google search results not to have noticed the changes. If you manage to make it glitch it says it's an error in "default web site", so maybe the DNS is wrong, or the server got eaten. Hopefully it's just a temporary glitch.
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Old 10-22-2010
I found the answer. This article, back in July, said, Interead the company behind the Cool-er e-reader has been put into liquidation. Darn!

I was considering buying the Cooler eReader. I looked at all the specs and thought it was the best one, though expensive. The main thing that made me hesitate was Border's announcing they will have a better Kobo eReader out soon.
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