Thread: Do you pirate books and why?
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Old 06-08-2012, 10:44 PM   #601
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
I'm surprised to see the "No" vote so high. (Just over 48% as I write this.)

Really? Never? Not even for books you love (& own in paper) that aren't yet available in ebook formats?
I have a scanner for that, so if it's worth rereading and I can't buy the ebook, I'm going to create my own. From what I saw of the pirated ebooks on Usenet from a few years ago, the pirate ebook versions of books without an official ebook edition were terrible, filled with OCR errors, formatting errors, missing author emphasis (italics, bold, font changes, etc.), and not worth reading or collecting. I suppose that might have changed for ebooks with official ebook editions since it's so easy to strip DRM, but it's too much bother for me to find out whether it's "good" or not.
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