User blog:AlanisSmithee/Rockett's World Mirror Links

Archive.org, a fantastic site that this wiki uses extensively, recently changed their book lending policies due to a lawsuit from some publishers. (Thanks, Chuck Wendig...)  You can still borrow books, but if the site only has one "copy" of a book, the time you can check it out is reduced to one hour and you are not given the option to download an offsite copy through Adobe's (awful) lending system. (I'm not sure how they figure this out, but I'm not one of their volunteers.)  If the book is in-print, they will also provide links to buy a personal copy.

Unfortunately for the Rockett's World series, the books have been out-of-print for almost 20 years now and are less well known than even the games. Half of the books have the one hour restriction applied and only one has a purchase link to compensate for it. I worry that if archive.org goes down completely *knocks on wood*, the fandom will lose what few copies of these books are out there.

So I uploaded my copies.  Most of them are the PDF versions with the exception of Who Can You Trust?, which is a horribly OCRed epub. If you can, I would recommend going through Archive's versions first. I have no plans to do this with my copies of the games yet.

And if you can, donate to Archive.org. The Wayback Machine and the 9/11 News Archives alone are worth preserving, and they have an immense treasure trove of stuff you just can't find out in the wild anymore. I know there's a lot of stuff and people that need money right now, but the world will lose out on a lot of information and history if they go under.

Hope everyone's doing alright. Stay safe.

(PS: Apologies for my absance.  With all of the stuff going on in the world, I just have not had the drive to go through the games lately.  I do check in on the wiki every so often.  So if you need to contact me, I'll see it.  Due to money issues, I've also been holding out on getting Girls' Life scans.  Hopefully, that will change soon.)