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Originally Posted by cfrizz
I hope you enjoy sitting on your mountain of dubious moral high ground, looking down on the rest of us.
Personally once I buy a book it is mine to do what I want with it. That means downloading to my pc, sending it to Calibre for disinfection if needed, formatting it to suit my preferences and then putting said book on all my devices so that I can read it with whatever device I choose.
The authors get their money, and I get to enjoy my book. These books and devices always stay in my poccession, so there is nothing to worry about.
Now if you don't like the fact that I format shift to read on my device of preference, please understand that I DON'T CARE! Learn to live and let live and you will be much happier, or at the least have more friends.
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The problem with this is that you don't buy a book, just a license for a file that is handled in a similar way to a paper book.
If you want a second paper book, you have to pay for it again. You can of course photocopy it, then only you have permission to read the original and the copy at the same time.
The moment you pass one of these on to someone else, you must destroy the other copy.
I know that hardly anywhere else is so much stolen as from EReader owners, because hardly anyone pays for the file copies actually used.
And I allow myself to consider those who do this consciously as thieves.