I saw someone's comment on an earlier post, recommending a website, EBooksCart. Since I'm always up for discovering more websites that let me read books for free, I googled "ebookscart" and clicked on the first link (same as the one I linked to). Seemed perfectly above-board - as above-board as free book websites can get - so I downloaded The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It took three clicks to download, which isn't bad - I'm ok with a roundabout way as long as I end up with the book I wanted to read - and it downloaded quickly, without any pop-ups. But when I clicked on the file, it opened up in the pictures app, instead of the app the computer usually uses (for Macs that would be iBook, for any other computer I believe it opens in Adobe Acrobat, specifically the Acrobat Reader).
Not only did it open in the wrong app, it wasn't even the right book. It was a lot of pictures and not much (readable) text, so I deleted the file.
EBooksCart is not legit.
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