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Originally Posted by HarryT
Stop introducing red herrings into the discussion. We're not talking here about letting someone read a book on your reading device; we're talking about making copies of books and giving those copies to someone else. You know this perfectly well, since in your earlier post you said that you thought it was perfectly OK for someone to give you a book if you promised to delete it when you'd finished it.
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Hmmm...actually, in this discussion we have been talking about all manner of lending e-books, and your opinion that it is piracy to lend an ebook to anyone using any method at all...even one such as lending a reader to someone with a book already on it. I am not introducing a red herring into the discussion at all by mentioning it--the discussion of lending out the physical reader started back at
post 103 when Tubemonkey mentioned that he lends out his spare reader, and you then came back and said that
doing so was piracy.
I also want to mention that you calling me dishonest for accepting a loan from someone and deleting it is slightly silly, since I fulfilled my end of the "contract" in this case. The only contract I have is with the person lending the book to me, and I have no way of knowing whether or not they have permission from the author to do so. In actual fact, I HAVE had books loaned to me under just those terms--either the author, or someone who has permission from the author has loaned me a book with the condition that I delete it when I finish reading it. For the other (few) ebooks that have been loaned to me, the loaner didn't say anything about permissions, and I didn't ask. Before you say that I'm dishonest because I didn't ask, do you check to make sure that the lender has permission for everything that you borrow? Or do you assume that they do? (because if they didn't have permission, they wouldn't be lending it out)
Shari