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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
I've arrived late to the discussion but I have a question? Do you equal sideloading to transfer by USB?
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That's really a difficult topic, as sidelaoding can mean a lot.
In the context I was aiming for, sideloading could be via Cloud and Calibre server as well.
If I come back to my test group of 10 friends, they use USB and most of them even directly to SD card.
But I wouldn't necessarily limit it to that.
Basically, what I would aim for:
Pirates sideload = don't use any regular store for direct downloads, but get their dubious content "somehow" onto their device. Normally, I wouldn't even care av bout the "get it to their device" aspect. But if I wouldn't focus on that, I would have to focus on the download aspect. And I'm pretty sure, lots of people have pirated stuff bot necessarily load it onto their device. So I wanted to focus on the stuff that's actually kind of used. Not the one laying around on some NAS.
Of course, then I could have asked: "What do you read?".
But this would have been the wrong picture again. A pirate may have 500 illegally obtained books, but only read 2 of them.The 2 would be a totally wrong picture.
Meaning:
Sideloading could be any way to bring your content onto your device, except the native stores.
Yes, you can obtain freebies from that store. But I explicitly wanted to focus on "purchased" vs. "avoided purchase".
A pirate might have as many freebies as a legit user, so this could falsify the picture.