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Piracy? We've heard numerous times what r/books thinks about it. But how does c/books view it? (lemmy.ml)

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"Piracy" here is used in the context of books and all sorts of manuscripts.

r/books have three main arguments against it:

It is technically theft
It damages the author's job and income (as well as the publisher, illustrator...etc.)
Why go through the tedious path of pirating books when you can borrow the books from a library legally and for free.

What's your reply to those arguments? Are they satisfactory?

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[–] Eyelessoozeguy 1 points 1 year ago

My local library uses some digital library that doesnt work with my e-reader. How am I suppose to borrow ebooks? Most books I read are too heavy to lug around all the places my ereader has been.

What about digital paywalls on research papers, I think those should be freely accessible to the general public if grant money was acquired for said research.

Yeah I pirate some books here and there, wish I could just borrow digitally from my local library, instead sometimes I use the largest library known to man.