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Originally Posted by harryE123
open the poll again, I am sure it will converge towards 80% for the no's.
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That's plausible, but consider how the poll questions are written. Putting an out of print book on your Kindle, if unethical, would be an exceedingly minimal violation. But in real life, do books that are out of print really exist on the darknet?
I've been wanting to read, and will have to read a paper copy of, the following book written by Gordon Haight, who died in 1985:
George Eliot, A Biography (1968)
http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpres...low-this-post/
My personal reading pattern is to get interested in a subject and then read about it. Because of this, I don't read many current books. And unless I am missing something, the darknet consists of recent books whose authors and editors do deserve compensation, rather than books by authors such as the late Dr. Haight.
Another subject I have been reading up on a bit lately is the history of the Latter Day Saints church. And I have not found any out of print, but still in copyright, Mormon history books which are available as illicit downloads. Am I missing something?