Police raided Ernest Edward Bywater’s Urana home on July 23 last year and seized a wide range of electronic items.

Among the haul was an Asus tablet, HP laptop, Dell laptop, Lenovo laptop, a flash key, CDs, DVDs and eight novels.

Bywater was charged with possessing child abuse material between 7.10pm on July 29, 2011 and 9.33pm on February 5, 2014, at Urana.

He was also charged with possessing child abuse material in Urana from July 1 to July 23 last year.

Bywater’s website contains links to a large number of his books, many of which carry warnings about graphic sex scenes.

One book, apparently written with a co-author, describes high school seniors allowing an older man to “take it further”.

Another describes high school students being turned into sex slaves by a drug researcher and one book details a 48-year-old man “saving a young woman he loves” in a “highly erotic story”.

Bywater has detailed his dealings with police in another book, noting the use of automatic software to download files, including from online nudist groups.

He has applied to have a disc drive with personal data returned or copied and also wants a full copy of the computer’s directory tree so he can identify other data.

A second application seeks information on the items seized and updates on the police examination of the items, which have been sent to Sydney.

Magistrate Tony Murray said it would be illegal for computers to be returned if they still contained the alleged pornography.

“If the material cannot be deleted (and is returned) you will be charged with identical offences,” he said.

Mr Murray said it was “very difficult” to wipe any pornographic material while keeping other material.

He has pleaded not guilty to six charges. 

The court heard there were fresh matters pending against Bywater, who wore a trench coat to Albury Local Court on Tuesday. 

The matter will return to court on September 29.