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Actually the books I'm talking about in my example, The Hollows series, I own them in "traditional book" form like many others I wanna fix. I have a very big library and I love to re-read books, so my intention is not actually to get books for free but to be able to adapt them to my new eReader so I don't need to carry the 100+ books I have in my bookshelfs (for example, now I live away from my hometown in an student's apartment and I couldn't carry even half of my books because of space problems).
I don't know how to "scan" books to pass them directly to my device, and I'd rather have them in text format in a reader file than as a picture in a .pdf (and I don't wanna break my books to scan them, of course), so I had to find most of them by looking around internet downloads. I don't deny that I have a couple books downloaded by... illegitimate means, but that has been early in my internet experience, and now I have a nice list of books from Amazon.
But I don't think I'm doing something wrong by getting a free digital version of a book I already paid for, the only difference between that and taking the book, opening MS Word and copying the text word by word so I can enjoy it in my Kindle is just to save time.
I hope I didn't give a bad image of myself. I don't have the intention to do it for piracy, just for comfort.
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