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Originally Posted by barryem
We're all overthinking this stuff.
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Loaning our friends and families books we've paid for is a good thing. It may or may not be illegal. It may or may not be a contract violation. It may or may not be a sin. It's certainly the decent thing to do. Not doing it is selfish and immoral.
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I agree. I'd have no problem adding one of my ebooks to my better half's ereader if she had the same bad taste in literature I do. That it happens to be given the green light by Amazon is incidental to my decision to do it.
I wouldn't take a book I bought and upload to a pirate site for any and all to download. But loaning a book to a friend or family matter doesn't bother me a whit. I understand ebooks are different than physical books according to their licensors. But then there's the real world and how people actually behave and that's where I live.