thought it was a nice thing they did. Same as you, I haven't
  touched a 'real book' in a long time but I have a hard drive
  FULL of underground free-book collections. I actually didn't
  even use the free book sites for a long time, but instead I'd go
  trolling around grad-student's FTP sites to find their hidden
  stash of PDF scans. Two best countries were always ch and cz -
  the 'free all information' spirit is alive and well in campuses
  worldwide just as it was in my days on the early 'net before it
  went all commercial smile emoticon