I put this on "Gambling," but after a request to put this in "Goods" or another Marketplace category, I decided, what the heck. Previous topic below.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=197060People take works that have fallen out of copyright and sell them, like old movies, William Shakespeare's plays, and so on, so I decided to do something similar.
I took a bunch of public domain books I found on the internet, concealed their titles to make them surprise books, and uploaded them onto CoinUploads. You pay 2 dollars worth of Bitcoins for each book. You don't get any money in return, but the concept is, if you discover a book that enjoyable for you, you win a bet, whereas if you discover a book that's not enjoyable, you lose a bet.
A version of a public domain work can be copyrighted, but I never uploaded any books from any organization that said their versions of public domain books were copyrighted.
There's millions of public domain books out there, and it's probably impossible to know about millions of anything. So you'll likely find books that you would never have known about otherwise. It might be a book you wouldn't normally give much attention to otherwise, but maybe in the best case, you're pleasantly surprised at the information you didn't know would be interesting to you. Paying 2 dollars and seeing what the book is and has in it, would that be fun? Are you willing to do that?
I tried to have books that represent at least a fairly wide range of interests and, and I think they're more obscure books, so it's likely you'll discover a book you never heard of. All books are in PDF format.
Surprise Book 1:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/839daad6-8cda-44b5-aac4-bdbabab014cb/NFNxjwIc20dVQqVvDT8R3q4ASurprise Book 2:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/d4aa0c5d-c1db-492b-b9cb-f8e101e78294/5TvD2DTW7C0aA2SRW6jWY7SESurprise Book 3:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/cd20dd15-6c1a-4084-ab6b-5d9528cf3dde/K1WXnt7qSaHriwX73cucxR7ESurprise Book 4:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/16a153ce-7848-4ec8-a3fd-8cf520ff8e0c/XBZEcESxQUbXmj4omrXPzM0XSurprise Book 5:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/a36136e3-2f63-4cdd-9afd-28c1275a04d6/Ey8fgVLs13CrHaepAJuqy81oSurprise Book 6:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/78891108-c70c-43dc-8a0e-a9dd2fa9da93/ENYAMmwBvlnPbiLk4ah4uMerSurprise Book 7:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/cc375210-d260-488c-8347-7b3cc302b2e3/dQHPC0tftLWTwDu5DYGPuuoISurprise Book 8:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/9bf5f7ce-1573-4837-9c1a-a16a732703c9/3YtCvPPSPeD9hRyx2ZcBG1FeSurprise Book 9:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/4970812f-5482-4e1e-b79e-750be5f611a6/RK8AF7gtUJAOqMlYlBz4ixA4Surprise Book 10:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/5f1a1ea4-e380-467d-a348-7f161450228a/bnYrMsJy3dx9HhjVRHhkDiVJSurprise Book 11:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/a9fed774-219c-4a9b-af0c-ec963bb45b34/b1enrnQv73PoONgtF2Ad3FKnSurprise Book 12:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/2ef3232a-2ed0-4328-b16e-ec55c8315bb9/r344bLmCJP3gW2d1UGcCsI0rSurprise Book 13:
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/f1f4b8c0-5174-4d8a-9e20-ad3bf7f94cfe/mOarS6Ms9CUGq9OILxSCgmVUI would prefer that you do not reveal the names of the books, but otherwise, let me know what you think.
