To, with apologies to Johnny Mercer, illustrate my last remark:
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Originally Posted by tompe
You do not take stuff. You copy stuff.
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Yes, although perhaps not in the sense of the rest of the post I quote (
#813).
The taking of the book is one reason why shoplifting from a corporate-owned bookstore is slightly less bad than piracy.
Forty percent of paper books are pulped. By stealing a paper book, the shoplifter generally reduces the number of books to be pulped by one. This reduces the emissions for transporting books from Barnes and Noble to the remainder house, and then to the place where it will be pulped.