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  1. Your purchase is consummated quickly—no shipping charges and no waiting for mail.
  2. In Adobe pdf format, you see a faithful reproduction of a real book, including cover, figures, charts, tables, equations, table of contents, index, etc. To learn more about Adobe ebooks, click here: Adobe eBooks.
  3. You have access to technical information directly from your computer.
  4. If your computer is a laptop, then your ebooks are portable—in fact, your entire library of ebooks is portable.
  5. Within the ebook, you have complete "search-for-word" capability.
  6. In Macatea ebooks each entry in the Table of Contents is linked into the text.
  7. You can magnify page images, making text and illustrations easy to read.
  8. eBooks cost less than printed books because there is no paper, ink, binding, or associated labor involved.
  9. The Adobe Reader is free. To learn more about the Reader, see Adobe's Reader FAQ.

Limitations that Keep Costs Down and Protect Copyrights

  1. The ebook can be accessed only from within Adobe Reader.
  2. The ebook file cannot be modified or edited.
  3. The ebook file cannot be accessed simultaneously by more than one computer. (Backup of the Reader with its library of ebooks is allowed.)
  4. A Macatea ebook can be printed once during the 365 days after purchase.