I download copies of eBooks when I own the physical product. These are pirated (some are in the public domain) and I have no intention of buying the eBook in the future. I feel if I purchased the physical copy its akin to scanning the book in and generating my own epub file.
I know not everyone here is going to agree with this and that's cool. But I just don't believe I am doing wrong here. Now... if I loan the physical book to a friend while reading the digital copy on my reader I guess that's a different story. But most of my friends don't read and those that do aren't on analog either so this hasn't come up yet!
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