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Originally Posted by HarleyB
Do very many people here really only read books once? I only ever read boring books once (sometimes twice because I like to most things the benefit of doubt!) but any book that I have enjoyed will be read many many times.
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I would imagine so. I certainly read most books only once.
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Surely the whole point of discussing the ethics and legalities of downloading darknet versions of books you already own assumes people are going to read the books again.
What's the point of downloading something if you aren't going to read it? 
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A lot of people collect books that they will never read - especially when they download huge collections from torrents. On the recent "how many ebooks" thread, some people had thousands. At 100 books per year, this would take decades to read.
There is a legitimate reason, I suppose, in having choice. I might, for example, download all of Dickens and then choose which to read next on the device, rather than download one at a time as I choose them. (In fact I intend to do this
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