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Originally Posted by kyrilson
I haven't read through all of this thread yet, but I wanted to point out to some of the people that are accusing this guy of being a pirate because he doesn't buy ebooks, that it's a bit presumptuous. A lot of ebooks become available for free download throughout the year and you can download them if you're patient and not too picky.
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You wouldn't believe how many eBooks I have gotten for free (actually bought for $0) over the years. Part of my daily routine is to check ereaderiq.com and freebooksy.com There may be other websites that scour Amazon for free books too, but these are the two I've learned of (here on mobileread, actually).
As an example, I now have a Calibre library for "history books". Which is funny, because I don't read that much history. Anyway, I have found all the books I have in this collection via ereaderiq.com. Several history book publishers have frequent and large sales of their books for $0. ereaderiq finds them. Mind you, I have 516 history books in this collection now. Every last one of those was on sale for $0 at one time (I have never paid to purchase a history ebook, I just collect the free ones). "Captivating History", "Matt Clayton", and "Hourly History" are three publishers who tend to put large numbers of their history ebooks one sale (e.g., you can generally pick up dozens and dozens and dozens of them from Captivating History on Black Friday).
I have even more free novels than history books, that I have bought for $0, but I don't have an easy way to filter the $0 ones out of my Calibre novels library for an accurate count. Most of my novels I have paid for, and they're all mixed in with the free ones in my Calibre novels library. I should have separated them from the beginning, but it's too late now.