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I don't like the editorializing in the poll about option 3.
I've switched almost completely to e-books from paper, and I spend about the same on e-books as I did on paper books. However, the vast majority of the e-books I have (about 2k books, excluding the Gutenberg and other public domain ones) are pirated. I don't feel particularly evil about this, as 90% of the pirated ones are electronic versions of books I've previously bought in paper. It may be illegal, but I don't see it as immoral at all - I've already paid for the content, I'm just using it in a different form.
The remainder are ones that happened to be in a torrent with a book that I remembered I liked in paper, or ones not available in non-DRM e-book form. If/when future works by the author become available in non-DRM ebook form I'm happy to buy them, it's less trouble than hunting all over the web for pirated copies and suffering through the uneven quality.
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