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Why? In order to read the book. It would be a vast understatement to say that I don't have extra income to spend on books - after rent and my phone bill are paid, I have $276 left each month to cover all expenses, starting with food. Does my downloading a book cost the author anything? Well, of course not! Because if it weren't free it never would have made it into my collection  |
So you think you have some god-given right to steal books, merely because you can't afford to buy it? Do you apply that same logic to other aspects of life, too?
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Oh, and if you hadn't noticed, a significant number of posts to this forum are ebook uploads. In fact that's how I found this forum to begin with - googling for an epub/mobi copy of something that I ended up downloading here.
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They are all LEGAL uploads (a good many of them by me, as it happens). There's a lifetime - many, many lifetimes, in fact - of books in the public domain that you can perfectly legally download. Why steal? For heaven's sake - if you enjoy reading, which you obviously do, BUY books.