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Any discussions about the "morality" of downloads wind up dragging in lengthy diatribes about the legality (or lack thereof) of same.
The short answer: if you're downloading, not distributing, and deleting, *nobody is going to notice*; sorting out how right-or-wrong that is, is a matter of personal ethics.
If you're suggesting that others do so, it starts hedging into more public ethics, and there's big room for debate, including the whole issue of when illegal actions (which this may-or-may-not be) are ethical.
(My personal take on it: ethical to download temporarily & delete? Sure. Ethical to *expect* a digital copy to be available? No; you don't get to assume someone else will have done the work of converting the pbook to ebook form. Grumbling about poor quality of the download is also tacky.)
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