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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Please don't tell us about illegal eBooks you are reading on your reader. Fahrenheit 451 is not available legally.
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It's not distributable legally. That doesn't mean nobody has a legal ebook version.
I own PDFs of Starhawk's
Spiral Dance, Victor Anderson's
Thorns of the Blood Rose, and Michael York's
Pagan Theology, because I scanned & converted them myself. York's book is on its way to other ebook formats, because I've converted it recently; I'm content for the other two to remain as PDFs. (The Anderson book is poetry, and the pages are small enough to look fine on a 6" screen. I converted Spiral Dance to be able to search it & quote from it; I don't need other formats.)
One of the biggest nuisances in copyright law interpretation (applying it to individual acts rather than just the corporate ones it was intended to limit) is that all that work is benefiting me only; anyone else who wants digital copies will have to reiterate my efforts. That's part of why ebook piracy is so widespread... anything else feels wasteful and selfish.
But trying not to get
too far off-topic... ironic digital books:
Steal This Book, by Abbie Hoffman. (Available as HTML in a couple of places online. I firmly believe that Hoffman did not mind who made how many copies of his book.)
Potentially,
The Joy of Reading, by Charles van Doren. Haven't read this, but have heard of it. Celebrates not just content, but the whole experience of ink, paper, pages, and so on.
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, by Lewis Hyde. (Apparently the title was too racy for the ebook crowd, and it's been renamed "The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World.") It'd be delightful to read about transfer-of-property patterns and how they work in various cultures, on a medium that denies that essential part of human relations.