ebrary.com, go fuck yourself.

Part of the reading for one of my classes is an ebook, because apparently actual books are passe. I can only access said ebook through one website, but I hate online readings, so I try to print it out.

Want to download it as a .pdf? Have to make an account. Annoying, but fine. I make an account.

However, only 30 pages can be downloaded at a time and for some reason, the radio option to "download entire chapter" simply prompts the download window to tell me that I need to input page numbers anyway, for no reason since the document is already separated by chapters, but whatever. Also, not giving it page numbers when I'm "supposed" to closes the entire download window. I enter in the page numbers, going by the numbers the book gives me: Chapter 1 is from page 5 to 34. Perfect! 29 pages, just below the download limit.

I enter in pages 5 to 34 in the handy download feature, and then open the .pdf!

Of course, the numbers do not match up. An ebook goes by book numbers, and books have pages like i and ii and iii and xii and publisher pages and dedication pages and what have you, so the 5th page in the content could be the 17th page numerically. The .pdf I'm downloading goes by .pdf pages, so I have to count them out from the not!Chapter 1 I already downloaded.

I do this and enter in the new numbers for what will no doubt be a successful download!

It tells me I have exceeded my fucking download limit for the day.

WHO THINKS THIS IS A GOOD IDEA. What moron thinks this system is intuitive and user-friendly. I am here to tell you, it's not. Everything from beginning to end is a terrible idea, and terribly implemented.



And ugly.

The site userface is amazingly ugly.