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09-10-2014, 01:41 PM | #17 |
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Or perhaps there is a mess of books from various conversions to and from various formats of the original acquisition and he has no idea which the originals are. At least, I hope so. |
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09-10-2014, 02:11 PM | #19 |
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Easy answer. The Internet.
Sounds like he downloads them from multiple sources, dumps them all the different copies of the same book in the author's directory (not folder) and tries reading them until he finds a copy that's good enough. These are not bought eBooks, they are downloaded from the net eBooks. |
09-10-2014, 02:17 PM | #20 |
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Jeez. Every time somebody mentions they have a lot of books the holier-than-thou brigade start jumping up and down screaming "pirate". Do you all get a warm fuzzy feeling from thinking you're so much better than him?
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09-10-2014, 03:05 PM | #22 | |
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As a software developer, if somebody who honestly can't afford my work pirates it, I'm OK with it. If they can otherwise afford it and get value from it, then I hope for them to pay. (though most of my work is basically impossible to pirate as it's tied to specific hardware, unlikely to be pirated as it's used in regulated medical devices, and it's my employer who would incurring the direct loss, not me). |
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09-12-2014, 03:16 AM | #23 |
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I got the majority of them from newsgroups. Before my first Kindle arrived in 2010, I started at the last entry, three years back, and looked at every book that was listed. I dl the ones that looked interesting. Don't use torrents because I don't trust them. I have also bought a lot of books from Amazon and other places. When I moved here from Seattle, I gave away over 12k paper books. (And by the way, it was harder to find someone who wanted them that I would have ever imagined. Ended up shipping some to the Philippines and gave the rest to VA hospitals.)
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09-12-2014, 03:20 AM | #24 |
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For those of you that buy them as you read them, good on you. I read at least two books a day, every day. Back when I was reading paper, it was always a chore to find the next book. I will never have that problem again.
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09-12-2014, 03:31 AM | #25 |
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