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Originally Posted by tompe
Yes, I can since it works differently for downloaded books (you download big collections) and it works differently for ebooks compared to pbooks. For pbooks you buy a book and do not read it because you want the physical item or you want to read it later and do not want to risk it being out of print. For ebook the risk for it being out of print should in a perfect world be minimal so there is no reason to accumulate ebooks before you want to read them.
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You mean there is no rational reason to accumulate them. I downloaded about a dozen books last night (all legal copies) and I bet lots of people here have downloaded lots of books they have not gotten around to.
In any case, the downloading of thousands of illegal books so you can read one illegal book does not justify either the first or the second activity. The book you read illegally deprives the author of said book from some income, even if it is only a fraction of a cent that a library book costs per reader. The thousand other books you download may end up being read in the future, or at the very least might encourage the uploader to continue to upload works thus depriving other authors of income.
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Bill