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Originally Posted by eschwartz
...I have never seen an AZW file in the wild, though. They all tend to be named .mobi, wherever you may get them from....
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I've asked my friend about a rough overview.
He didn't want to count, so it's just a rough estimate.
He thinks, he's got about 45.000 books now.
About 80% ePUBs.
Maybe 10% PDFs (lots of comics).
Maybe 5% MOBIs. He says, there are almost as many AZWs as MOBIs, he doesn't care (or know) the difference.
The rest some exotic formats, some of them long gone. But he downloads anyway, it might proof useful some day. And some specific titles he only finds in a single format. Then he takes whatever he can get.
He's not converting yet, still enough easily accessible books for years.
He doesn't have any problems about pirated eBooks:
a.) He wouldn't buy them digitally anyway, so he's not harming any potential purchase. And he still buys his occasional paper book.
b.) He doesn't download movies, though. Too risky and not worth it, as movies are cheap to rent via flatrates. He's checking out PRIME and similar services and if they come to the level of movies (prices, availability, ...) he might stop downloading pirated books.
c.) He doesn't consider himself a hoarder. He doesn't download in such huge quantities, "to have it all". He batch-downloads out of convenience. Obviously there are "leeching" programs, that intelligently can download lots of quantities from different sources without much interaction.And then it's simply more convenient, to save another 500 books to the SD card, instead of actually manually checking them. He only checks when looking for a specific book. Then he tries the most likely keywords for search and doesn't bother much about the location of the file.
BTW: He's downloading every single day.
From the very same sources.
Quote: "If I would care for the quantity, I could download thousands of books every single day."
In his procedure, he can see at a glance, what he had downloaded before from the very same source. So he only downloads the new stuff. There's still the occasional double, but less than when using other sources.