I am struggling with a guilty conscience, but not too much. I am against using the darknets for works that can be gotten legitimately, but I wanted a series of books that are not out in ebooks, and do not seem to be anywhere on the horizon. A little bird (I don't know if I should offer it a cracker of rum
) told me where to find them as pdfs, and I then converted to epub. I just happened to stumble across this little birdie, too, but was grateful.
I only feel slightly guilty because I own multiple copies of most of the series in pbook, and single copies of the others. I am not depriving anyone of a sale, because there is no sale to be made, but I still feel guilty for doing something 'illegal'. I did give a copy to someone else, they are the real reason I was looking in the first place, but they also own multiple pbook copies, so that doesn't even really bother me, either.