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Old 04-22-2008, 08:35 PM   #57
Amalthia
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But downloading ebooks through torrents just doesn't work as well in practice as you may assume. (at least that was my experience)

I'd like to think that most people will pay if they can get a good quality version of a book. personally I'm tired of OCR errors but for some books I can't find them for sell anywhere and if they are for sell they are at the 20-30 dollar price range, which I'm not paying for a book that's been out for over 2 decades.

the bottom line is there are much better places to find books than torrent websites.

Torrent websites seem to work best for sharing large files such as movies, music, and programs.

And demonoid doesn't just share copyrighted files, last time I checked before it went down last year I could find a lot of freeware programs there. So while yes people do abuse the system it's still a great system for sharing hard to find files.
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