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Originally Posted by AnneT
No.
Sideloading just means 'not downloading from the cloud' (nor uploading to the cloud), but loading the file from a computer or a card (or whatever) onto your device. So nothing illegal about that.
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From my perspective, "side loading" was a term invented for use with the Kindle or Nook or Sony's devices that are/used-to-be singular purpose, reading books. It was putting ebooks on the ereader device from a different source other than the manufacture's devices' "book store" & displayed by the device's default ereader.
Tablets don't have a "default ereader", yet(?).
For tablets/phones, I would think that all books are side-loaded onto the devices since one also "side-loaded" the ereader(s) as well; the only tablets/phones with original sources are the tablet manufactures who sells books thru there "book store".
For me, "side-loading" did not equate to pirating. Censorship of words have become ridiculous. There is a news website that forbids the word "n*e*g*ro" but I wonder how they would print "United Negro College Fund" in a story; perhaps the UNCF changed its name(?).