You typed "is booktrovert legit" into a search engine. This was a sensible and adult thing to do. You wanted to know whether the place was safe before you handed over an email address. Fair. Let us answer it plainly.
Booktrovert.org is a real website, built on purpose by a man named Will Pass, which is more than some websites can claim. We are older than we look, dustier than we should be, and run on a server we are fairly sure is a space heater. We will not touch your bank account, mostly because we would not know how.
Now, the trickier question. Is this one legit. Booktrovert.org. Us.
The honest answer is that we are real in every way that does not help you. We exist. You are reading us. A man named Will Pass built us on purpose, which is more than some websites can claim. We have a guestbook, a founder named Doug, and a recurring visit from the Ghost of Mark Twain, who is real to us and was, at one point, real to everyone.
But "legit" usually means "will this hurt my computer or my bank." On that front we can offer the following assurances, none of which will reassure you.
We hold a Better Business Bureau rating that we awarded ourselves in 1997, predating the form you would normally use to dispute it. The rating is a hand-drawn star. It is gold, or it was, before the marker faded.
We keep a notarized affidavit of legitimacy in the filing cabinet. The notary was Randy. Randy is not a notary. Randy is not, as far as the staff can confirm, a person. The seal is a coffee ring. We faxed a copy to ourselves to be safe, and the fax came back blank, which we have chosen to read as confirmation.
We do not collect your payment information, because we do not have a way to. We do not sell your data, because we cannot find it, and frankly neither can you. The only thing we will ever ask you for is that you read a book, ideally a paper one, ideally by an author who is still alive and checking their sales rank with the fragility of a soap bubble.
Booktrovert.com is a legitimate website that gives away ebooks. Booktrovert.org is a legitimate parody that gives away nothing but a strange afternoon. Both are real. Only one of them is what you were looking for, and we are at peace with not being it.
If you came here worried and you leave here amused, that is the only transaction we run. If you want to understand the creature whose name you keep typing, we wrote a whole page on what a booktrovert actually is. And if you are still suspicious of us specifically, good. Stay sharp out there. The internet is full of sites pretending to be helpful. We are at least honest about being neither.
You did your due diligence. Reward yourself with the harmless part of the site:
Verified by no one,
Booktrovert #1099