All of the books we offer are provided in electronic, downloadable form. They can be read with the latest version of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download by clicking here. The reasons for this are as follows:
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Our books are updated very frequently. If we maintained an inventory, it would be obsolete most of the time.
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Using printed rather than electronic books would also subject us to somewhat of a conflict of interest. The reason is that if one of our readers identified inaccuracies in one of our books, we would have a tendency to want to deny it because it would be so expensive and time consuming to continuously correct and update our physical inventory of books to correct the errors that it would not be practical.
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Our electronic books have copious hotlinks that will take your Internet browser directly to the source of evidence we used on the Internet. This accelerates your freedom education. A printed book requires you to manually look up the information in a library instead.
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Electronic books are searchable, making it easier to find the information you are looking for. This is true even for books that have been scanned in, because we use the Adobe Acrobat Capture feature to do electronic character recognition on the text of the book to make it electronically searchable.
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It is very easy to make a printed book from the electronic by following the directions on the cover page of our electronic books. Here is a summary:
4.1 Copy the file to a CD or USB flashdisk
4.2 Take the CD or USB flashdisk to Kinkos
4.3 Tell them to print the book from the free Adobe Acrobat version 6.0 reader and bind using 19-hole comb binding and black vinyl covers, separating the chapters with colored papers.
4.4 Come back the following day and you have an attractive, functional printed book that will last a lifetime!
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The only drawback of electronic books is that they encourage copyright violation by our readers that violates our
Member Agreement. The
Member Agreement disallows violating
the copyright for our materials or using them for other than
personal use and we count on all our readers to do the honorable
thing so that we can continue to provide the valuable research that
benefits us all. Please respect the copyright and tell your
friend to donate to get his or her own copy of the materials you
obtained from this website.
When you obtain an electronic book off the SEDM website, the following sequence happens:
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Within a couple minutes after you make your donation, you will receive a confirmation email. The confirmation email will contain a link where you can download your copy of the electronic book in Adobe Acrobat format. You will also be provided with a username and password to use to initiate the download. The letter also directs you to turn off your Firewall software, anti-virus software, and download accelerator software to prevent conflicts or problems with downloading.
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Next, you should follow the directions in the order confirmation email by:
2.1 Turning off your firewall software.
2.2 Turning off your anti-virus software.
2.3 Turning off any download accelerators that interfere with the downloading.
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Now you can click on the download link in the order confirmation email.
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A login prompt will appear as below:
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Type in the Username and Password provided in the confirmation email.
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You will then be presented with a dialog box like that below:
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Click on the "Save" button in the above dialog box.
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You will then be presented with a dialog box asking where you wish to save the download file.
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Select a location and then click "Save".
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Wait until the download is complete (several minutes).
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Once the download is complete, you can open your Windows Explorer, locate the downloaded file, and then open it up with WINZIP.
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Extract the file from the ZIP archive using a decompression utility of your choice and copy to a directory of your choice.
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Double click on the unzipped file and view it in the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.