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While reading this thread I have to say I've seen some very selfish comments. Writing books is a job. The people who write the books deserve to be paid - the same way you deserve to be paid for your day's work.
How would you feel if your boss told you that you should work for free? This is not a "moral high ground" comment; this is a "put yourself in someone else's shoes" comment. I'm not going to comment on the legality of it, only on how it would make me feel - which is pretty crappy.
You claim you love books but then you place no value on books. Of course some of you cannot locate your books on file - you don't have any value attached to those books. You did no work for the books nor did you spend any of your hard earned money on the books. You cannot appreciate something if you don’t value it.
I would feel differently if you were donating directly to the author(s) on a very regular basis – but that does not seem to be the case.
I use Calibre and I appreciate the hard work and dedicated time that the developers of Calibre put into their work. Calibre is free but I donate to Calibre because I want them to KNOW that I appreciate the work and to CONTINUE to make improvements.
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