Through obuscation on their part and a failure to research thoroughly on my part I was sucked in to this site. WARNING: This is a SCAM! Everything that I saw listed is available for free practically everywhere because it is all in public domain.

asked by Warren B. on 4/5/11

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Has anyone heard of this website? It advertised millions of books to download on different formats -- when I got to their website -it said that there would be a one time fee of $49.95 to access book, movies, comics, tv shows, so I paid the 49.95. When I got to the ebook database all their books were really old ones that you could find in a public library for free; then they had a section called Estore and that is where they had all the current bestsellers, new releases, etc, but they all had a price on them. I checked out the movie and it said to download divx or megaload-- well it did not work with my IPad; so I tried it on my pc - after I downloaded what I needed to download and selected the tv show --it brought me to the website where you can actually see these shows for free-- i thought maybe i messed up on the download so I did it again and yes it took me to a screen but nothing was there -pushing all the different buttons to play the video did not work- finally I decided this is not for me-- I sent them an email through their website stating that I wanted a refund-- of course, silly me, now I am doing my research; but initially I did not have any doubts because i found the link in the amazon website so I figured it was a trusted link-- I am not a computer guru by any means but I have downloaded lots of games and other stuff- so it could not be me that could not view a show as they advertised-- oh, and when they said "compatible for all formats" none of the 'download vidqx and/or megaload" in order to view worked. Most of all, what got me were the free books-- all the old books that you would have read in junior high and college were the books available -- I was wondering why there have not been any complaints?

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This site is heavily promoted to online marketeers and webmasters. It has a lot of banner ads for them available. This so-called affiliate program claims to give them 75% of all referrals. BEWARE: thereadingsite.com is a total scam! They pretend through pictures on their site plus a number of fake reviews around the blogs that they can deliver the latest books for free. Nothing is less true. Those who pay and sign up find themselves in a user section where you can click to 'ebooks', magazines and newspapers and a few other 'goodies'. These links lead you to websites that are free and open to the whole net. The 'ebooks' link gets you to a site where you download out of copyright books for free and where you have to pay for newer books! Help spread the word: THEREADINGSITE.COM IS A SCAM!

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Joe,

If you feel strongly about it, you could review the website so that when someone searches for information regarding the site, they can find your review and learn from it. It would probably be helpful to a lot more people than just Kay...

http://www.sitejabber.com/review-a-website

T.

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I was unable to search or browse the collection of ebooks at thereadingsite.com today since i didnt want to pay before testing.

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