Thread: What's with the Paranoia?
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Old 01-14-2021, 06:03 PM   #279
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This brings up the question of where you are obtaining your ebooks from.

There are only so many public domain books out there and many people are more interested in newer material so stating you don't buy ebooks is a bit strange for someone who is asking about how to not register his Kobo Forma.

I have trouble visualizing someone who is happy downloading freebies only from Amazon/Kobo/etc. and even there for most of them, you need an account to do so. Public libraries are even stickier since they want to see your ID before issuing a library card.

This leaves one major source of "free" in copyright ebooks which, sadly, brings the word piracy to mind and does fit in with a touch of paranoia about privacy.
Between The Internet Archive, Google Books, Project Gutenberg, Sacred Textsand various other PD/CC Licensed book repositories, there are more than 25,000,000 books to select from. IIRC, the average person reads less than 2,500 books in their entire lifetime.
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