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Originally Posted by darryl
It may not be quite as convenient to obtain a pirate copy of a book, but not prohibitively so.
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I buy the books I read from Amazon but sometimes I want to read a book they don't have. I'm pretty much forced to read on a Kindle where I can keep the text size where I need it, my eyes being old, so I'll get those books any way I can.
Another situation where I'll use a pirated ebook is when the one I bought from Amazon has enough typos and formatting errors to be distracting and then I'll find one from another source to actually read. In this case I've paid for the book so I don't feel at all bad about that.
The point of all this, though, is that the ease of locating and obtaining pirate books is every bit as easy as getting them from Amazon and the quality is usually better. I simply go to usenet, do a search for the book I want, usually by title, sometimes by author, and there are many on my screen to choose from. I click and it downloads. That's all there is to it. It's typically less than a minute from the time I decide I want it to the time I have it on my computer.
Yes this did require a bit of planning to set it up but even that only took a few minutes of googling and setup time.
And yet I buy most of the books I read. It's not because I'm so honest. I'm reasonably honest but I'm fine with a bit of larceny. That's the American way. The thing is, though, I love to read and I'm grateful to authors for providing me good stuff to read and I like to pay them back so they'll keep on doing it.
Barry