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Originally Posted by rixte
I guess I'm not understanding what you're trying to find out with your poll?
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I only know about 15 people with readers, the rest having tablets and the likes.
Of those 15, about 10 are close enough to get somewhat regular input about their habits and behavior.
Of those 10, only 1 is buying his content.
The rest is downloading most (all?) of their material from various sources, most of them illegal.
Of course such a small group, spread over only a handful of countries, can't be base for any valid statistics.
Still, within this test group, it's a pretty consistent picture.
I could have phrased the poll "do you purchase your content or are you into illegal downloads?".
But:
a.) I wanted to phrase it as neutral as possible, given the MR regulations and "big brother". Still one of my wordings has been modified by a moderator already.
b.) I don't want to emphasize on the source of the content, but on the link to sideloading. Again, in the small test group, all "pirates" did choose their readers with regards to pirating. They didn't care about the bookstore (which they wouldn't use anyway). They didn't care much about UI and such. They did care about file system, storage expansion, to some extent the OS and so on.
c.) Instead of "sideloading" I could have asked "do you choose your reader with regards to pirating books?" but I wanted to build the link to another poll where a majority stated, sideloading is of enormous importance for them when choosing a reader.
Easiest would be, having polls with only a set of 2 answers and then directly comparing:
- Buying content or downloading illegally?
- Sideloading to use your legally purchased books or to use pirated stuff?
....
But then I'd have 20 sets of isolated polls and no correlation at all.
The long and short of it:
My tiny control group of about 10 people mainly is obtaining their content from illegal sources.
They use sideloading and choose their reader with that regard.
They mostly use ePUB, to remain as open as possible.
Obviously MR mainly consists of avid readers and enthusiasts and their opinion will differ significantly from many other groups.
But whom should I ask? Is there a poll in "hackers united"?
Anyway...
By adding "free", a moderator further intensified the confusion, I already seem to have raised by avoiding the term "pirated"...