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Are you gonna eat that?
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Phillipsburg, NJ
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yup. its not my fault things i want to read like pohl's heechee series aren't currently available in print, let alone legal ebook. however they are up on 'those' sites. what is one supposed to do when publishers simply don't give a poop? either i buy used copies or pirate them, either way nobody makes any money.
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Wizzard
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Location: Roundworld
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The problem is convincing whoever's currently sitting on the remaining rights for the rest of the titles (apparently not the nonagenarian author) to allow them to bring out the rest for an affordable price. Until then, it's the darknet for you, me hearties! ![]() ![]() * Pohl's autobiography in that bundle, by the way, is excellent. |
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#123 |
Writer
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: UK
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Usually I buy the paperback if I really really want that book.
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#124 |
o saeclum infacetum
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Location: New England
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Presumably you could read them them when you bought them. Did the books come with a guarantee of accessibility in perpetuity? Do you expect that any purchase will remain viable for you, no matter what the vicissitudes of life or the ravages of time?
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#125 |
Wizard
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Location: Paris
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If i really really realy want to read the book NOW, i'll get the p-book.
Else, i'll just read someting else on my TBR list. Last edited by EowynCarter; 05-06-2012 at 09:52 AM. |
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#126 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Colorado
Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2nd Gen
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If it isn't available for my Kindle, I find something else to read.
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#127 |
Readaholic
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Location: South Georgia
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I have all of the Buchanan Westerns in DTB and they are not available as ebooks. I am getting ready to send them all off to have them scanned. I just have to figure out which of company I want to use. There are two or three here used by members.
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#128 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Location: Atlanta, GA
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I'm trying to remember when the last time I bought a dead tree version of a book. It's certainly been well over a year. The vast majority of new books that I want to read come out as ebooks. My biggest issue if getting ebook versions of older books, most of which I already own in paper or hardback. They are slowly coming out.
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#129 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA
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Digital Pirates:
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's web for me. We torrent, we upload, we email, and rip, Sync up, me 'earties, yo ho. We keygen and unlock and write you a script, Sync up, me 'earties, yo ho. Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's web for me. We export, we filter, we host, and crack, Sync up, me 'earties, yo ho. Decrypt and configure, for Windows or Mac, Sync up, me 'earties, yo ho. Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's web for me. For Kindle and Nook, infringe and incite, Sync up, me 'earties, yo ho. We hide in the servers, we're active all night, Sync up, me 'earties, yo ho. We're hackers, seeders, rooters, and phreaks, Sync up, me 'earties, yo ho. We're lurkers and leeches, troublesome geeks, Sync up, me 'earties, yo ho. Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's web for me. We're coders and kludgers, mind the hash tags, Sync up, me 'earties, yo ho. Aye, but our peers are checking the flags, Sync up, me 'earties, yo ho. NOTE: Entirely tongue-in-cheek. I'm not advocating anything. But if a large crowd of torrenters want to start wearing eyepatches and tricorn hats and drinking grog, I'm all in favor of that. |
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#130 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Idaho, on the side of a mountain
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Terrific, Elfwreck.
I am too lazy to get off the couch (reading time is reading time, darn it). I log into my library's site and reserve the DTB, then I read something else. |
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#131 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Location: Monroe Wisconsin
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I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet, but with some publishers you can request that it be put out as an ebook. I know Amazon has a link you can click on if a book isn't yet available as an ebook "I'd really like to read this book on a kindle" or some such wording. You could try writing the publisher about it as well I'd guess. Of course a lot of people are going to want an ebook and will pirate a copy if there isn't a legit ebook available. Sometimes it's a new book, but often I think people do it with books they own as a convenience. why lug around a thick heavy DTB copy if you can put it on an ereader.
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Eclectic Collector
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![]() On the topic, I have no trouble finding the books I want in forms easily convertible for my eReaders. Now, is that because I am just lucky, my taste run to those books that lend themselves more readily to e-formates, or I shop for books online only at places that specialize in ebooks? If I couldn't find it, I would move on...my TBR list is huge as is. |
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#133 |
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Location: NY
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I just buy the actual book
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#134 |
Wizard
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Location: Canada
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I borrow the physical books from the library if they are absolutely not available or are too expensive as e-books.
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![]() Since then, I've come to love my e-reader, but I still read plenty of p-books, both my own copies and those from the library. When I find one I want to own in p-book format, I buy it, either new or used. |
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