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Originally Posted by rixte
Now you're getting into that weird space of pirate/ebook hoarders. I'm guessing they downloaded because they COULD - not because they intended to read those 20,000 books. (Which is the whole ... it doesn't make them less pirated, but it does mean they're not really 'lost sales' from the ebook market.)
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Compared to HarryT with his 6.000+ books, I'm a tiny fish in a huge pond with my roughly 3.000 legally obtained books (all purchased, no freebies).
But in my group, this by far ist he biggest number of bought books. Most of the others have a few hundred at best.
But then there's the group of "pirates". They all are in the tens of thousands.
Confirmed, same for Nintendo games, MP3s and whatever.
Why stop at your actual demand?
If you download pirated content, why not download almost everything you may find?
The friend I've mentioned before stated:
"It takes way too much time, to actually filter through the content.
I don't look for some author or anything specific.
Sometimes I just download all the German ePUBs that have been uploaded to my usual source that day: Another 500 or so, downloaded in less than 3 minutes.
Actually checking them would take way longer.
I just archive them on my SD card - and there's plenty of books to store on 32GB or even 64GB"....
And then again - such vast numbers easiest can be sideloaded.
Would anyone download hundreds of MB of unmanaged data directly on their reader?
Going through your PC and some kind of content management seems more likely...