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Originally Posted by DNSB
A few years before I retired, a students at one of our high schools asked me where I got my ebooks from while complaining that a lot of the ebooks they had obtained looked terrible. It turned out that they had downloaded a couple of SF book torrents and 90% of them looked like crap. There were also a lot of duplicates, misnamed files, files with the wrong extensions and a generous serving of plain garbage files.
My suggestion was that they delete those books and start purchasing books they might want to read, borrowing from the local library for those that the library had available and looking into sites such as Baen's Free Library and Gutenberg.
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Yeah. Of course, when you have purchased your books legally and can't read them because Amazon has disabled its apps from downloading them and can't be bothered to transfer your books to a newer format, that's a whole other can of worms. I think piracy might be morally justified in such a case.