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Originally Posted by CRussel
I object to the notion that "for free from somewhere else" means pirated. what about books downloaded from Mobileread itself, or Project Gutenberg, or any of several other legitimate sources of free books? Given what people are equating that choice with, I didn't check it, but were the question phrased in a more neutral way, I would certainly have said yes. While I don't read too many books that are in the public domain, I certainly do read some. (Such as the entire Miss Silver series, all of Dorothy Sayers, or even Ernest Hemingway. Keep in mind that I'm in Canada, a +50 country.)
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Originally Posted by rixte
I'm also uncomfortable with the 'somewhere else' being a synonym for piracy - I didn't check that because I read enough of the thread but there are several legitimately free 'somewhere else's that I use.
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I applaud the bravery of the (three so far) people who stood up for PD literature by voting in the poll...