<< yes, it is and I sent it yesterday to a Harper exec for his piracy patrols to kill............ Publishers have them now. necessary. >> Wow. Aren't you righteous? Ever tape a vinyl album onto a cassette? Or rip a CD? Or use a VCR to record a program off the TV? I don't think circulating an e-text of a Pynchon novel is going to lose him much money.