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blythburgh · 10-29-2011, 04:21 PM

Thanks for all the helpful advice. My husband seems to be happy with the Kindle. I will just have to save up hard and get the Sony for myself. If I can get one cheaply enough I will make it his Christmas present and he can keep my birthday present.

I would never download a library book and then mangle it so I could read it on Kindle and then keep it. To me that is stealing. In much the same way I consider copying other people's CD's or downloading music tracks from the internet without paying is the equivelant to shop lifting. I know many people disagree with me and I do not want to start an argument. In the same way as I refuse to argue face to face with people who consider it to be OK to do this with music. I find it odd that the people I personally know who do this and/or knowingly buy black market copies of films would be horrified it I suggested they remove a copy of the CD or DVD from a shop without paying. To them that would be shoplifting and wrong but what they are doing is OK as they are not physically taking an object. We just have to agree to differ and accept each others point of view.

10-29-2011, 04:21 PM	#10
blythburgh Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: Kindle	Thanks for all the helpful advice. My husband seems to be happy with the Kindle. I will just have to save up hard and get the Sony for myself. If I can get one cheaply enough I will make it his Christmas present and he can keep my birthday present. I would never download a library book and then mangle it so I could read it on Kindle and then keep it. To me that is stealing. In much the same way I consider copying other people's CD's or downloading music tracks from the internet without paying is the equivelant to shop lifting. I know many people disagree with me and I do not want to start an argument. In the same way as I refuse to argue face to face with people who consider it to be OK to do this with music. I find it odd that the people I personally know who do this and/or knowingly buy black market copies of films would be horrified it I suggested they remove a copy of the CD or DVD from a shop without paying. To them that would be shoplifting and wrong but what they are doing is OK as they are not physically taking an object. We just have to agree to differ and accept each others point of view.