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Old 11-07-2011, 05:55 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by VicLavigne View Post
I was also a little disturbed by the mention of buying an ereader with the intent of putting a lot of torrented ebooks on it. It is possible that the torrented books are all public domain, which would be legal. However, I would not want to gift a person with a device full of illegally downloaded ebooks. Give the device with some free public domain works (there are huge numbers of those) and the new owner can elect how to proceed to get more on her own.

Also, outside of public domain there are lots of free contemporary ebooks available. A quick perusal of Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Smashwords and other sites will point the way.

Vic
I agree, there are so many legit and much easier ways to acquire public domain books that I don't see somoene using torrents to get them. I highly doubt many public domain books are downloaded via torrents.
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