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Originally Posted by HarryT
Let me ask a related question. If you are one of those people who thinks that it is indeed ethically acceptable to illegally obtain a book that is out of print, if it did at some point come back into print, would you then buy it, even if you had no intention of ever reading it again?
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Maybe. It would depend on the price (are they asking a top price, or a reasonable price) and the format (it is nicely formatted, with pictures, if applicable, or is it just a hand-scanned version where not even the basic formatting is done). I don't part from my money that easily, I do expect something in return.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I see it as entirely different.
For example, as I've said in another thread, I don't personally believe that owning a paper book gives you some "God-given right" to the equivalent eBook. I own several different paper editions of "The Lord of the Rings", and had created a eBook version for my own personal use long before it was officially available as an eBook. But as soon as the official eBook was released, I bought it. Not because I wanted to read it (my own version is a lot better!), but because it was (in my personal code of ethics) the right thing to do.
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Same here. I have replaced a lot of books already (or rather, bought the official one, but kept my version as that was better made up, proof-read, etc).