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- An Audiobook Version Of Book 2, Cached Out
Imagine that a retired FBI agent specializing in high tech crimes, who writes crossword puzzles, was the head cryptographer for the movie Red Machine, and was the president of the American Cryptogram Association, happened to also be a geocacher. And then imagine that this geocaching, puzzle writing, former FBI agent wrote a series of mysteries. And THEN, imagine if he offered those books for free.
Oh happy day. You can stop imagining now. This is real.
This is the only book in the series you can also find as an audiobook (not free)
Cached Out is book two in the Cliff Knowles series. It appears to be the first book in the series to introduce geocaching, but not the last.
In book two -
"Newly retired from the FBI and alone after the tragic death of his wife, Cliff Knowles takes up geocaching. While looking for a cache in the mountains he comes across a human skeleton and reports it to the sheriff's office. ". In book 4, Cliff tackles the Fizzy challenge, and in book 8 - "Ten geocachers are invited to an exclusive all-expense paid adventure on a private island owned by the controversial new owner of the geocaching company. What could possibly go wrong? As it happens, plenty. Geocaches that are death traps. A raging storm. A friendly competition that turns not so friendly. A body. A murder? Some adventures can be too thrilling, as Cliff Knowles learns once again." Geocaching is woven through the other books in the series as well.
These books are being offered as pdf files, which can be read on may devices, but if you are like me, and prefer epub versions, they are easy to convert! (I do tnhis a lot with old genealogy books that are only available as pdf files)
Go here to download the free program Calibre
Once it is downloaded and installed, open the program and choose add books from the top left, and browse to add all of the Cliff Knowles PDF files that you downloaded from Russell Atkinson's site.
This is optional - but I like my books to have covers and metadata -
Right click on the first book, choose "edit metadata" and then choose individually.
This allows you to add a cover, a description, the number in the series, etc. You can find all of this information on the series site here - http://cliffknowles.ackgame.com/index.htm
But even faster, and more comprehensive, simply click on the download metadata at the bottom of the screen.
This will work best if you change the author name from "Russ" to Russell Atkinson - that should make it easier for the software to locate the information for each book.
Now your book has a cover, a description, and even a number in the series.
Now with all the covers and metadata added, you can convert to epub or mobi
Just select all, and choose "convert books" on the upper left. I do not change any settings, I just use the default. In the top right of the screen that popped up, you can choose the output format. I like epubs, but some ereaders use Mobi.
To read them on my phone, I use the Aldiko App (although any book app will work!)
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