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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Pretty easy to do with freebies, special offers and of course PD. A few minutes a day will get you quite a few books. I remember DR. Drib lamenting how many freebies he had acquired and desiring to be rid of them.
And once you have amassed thousands, then you will possibly have forgotten what attracted you to them originally. I mostly just get what I want, but have still had many WTF moments. But often I read the book and it comes back to what the initial attraction was.
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I see, so there is different levels of "freebie-addicts" out there.
To me it makes very little sense to buy any book that is on sale, just in case. Even at $1 a book that will get expensive fast - possibly a lot more than paying full price for every book you do end up reading. Grabbing every freebie you can get your hand on every day surely leads to a bunch of books you are not even mildly interested in? So freebies should at least catch your interest a little bit. The books in the public domain are going to be in the public domain - so why hord them? Even those you download should be preselected according to your reading interests.
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I am a bit surprised at the implied aspersion (or am I reading you wrong?) as you have always seemed kind of nice.
Helen
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You were reading me wrong. I might have worded it a bit harsh, but I wanted to avoid steering into the wrong direction. Of course I am aware that it only takes a few minutes to slip down into the dark net and just grab anything you like. And I am not accusing anybody. Here on MR it doesn't take long until a mod shuts down and/or bans people for suggesting, linking to, attaching any pirated material. I been here long enough to see it happen, I am sure you have to.