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Originally Posted by Lemurion
That doesn't mean MobileRead needs to arrange the download section for my convenience - the section is arranged to meet the goals of the site. How well that arrangement works to meet those goals is open for discussion, but that doesn't take away the rights of MobileRead's staff to make those decisions and offer the books the way they want to.
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Absolutely true. Nobody has a right to demand that MR offers a service that they don't want to. What features/conveniences they choose to spend their time creating for users is entirely up to them.
However, when someone else goes through the trouble of creating a torrent and links to it are either (allegedly) deleted from user's posts or loudly objected to, it kind of points out that there is more to it than MR staff choosing not to put the effort in to offer the capability themselves.
It illustrates a deliberate choice to prevent such access being made through MR's site, regardless of who's effort is involved.
Again, they are within their rights to do so, but let's call it what it is. The arguments by some on here about users demanding efforts on the part of MR (entitlement) or MR's right to decide what features they want to spend their volunteer time enabling are not really part of this issue. All of that is just a red herring.
I may be wrong in this, but my interpretation of what I've seen is that the issue comes entirely down to a refusal to allow any access to a torrent of the PD works from their site, regardless of who creates that capability. It's not that they don't want to enable it themselves, it's that they're refusing to allow it. They're are within their rights to do so, but let's all be honest about it.
My intention is not to sound ungrateful or demanding, I just wish that if that's the policy that they would come out and say so. I may have various reasons for not agreeing to it, but I respect their right to make the policy that they want.