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Do you buy rent or borrow? Or do you have a subscription of some kind? Do you read physical books or do you read ebooks?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I pirate shamelessly. Z-lib is my to-go.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I just realized, boy is it refreshing to actually talk about sites like z-lib without being censored. Library Genesis and Anna's Archive are also nifty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I didn’t know about Anna’s Archive, thank you. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah if i'm even remotely ambiguous on whether i'd want a book, piracy. i can't buy everything and i can't go to a library every day. but i definitely try to buy books from the authors i know i like—i heard great things about NK Jemisin and Kim Stanley Robinson for example, read one of their books, and then that made me go out and buy large parts of both's output. i think i have physical copies of like a third of KSR's major novels, lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Exactly. I always read a pirated epub first, then, I always go out and buy that book in hardcover. But many of the authors I enjoy are long dead, and many of their prints are in public domain. So piracy doesn't matter there. That's where Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks are incredible!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Book Depository closed the other month, I don't know if Amazon understood how important it is for people outside US and EU, but the closure really pushed everyone I know to casually switch back to piracy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure what Book Depository is, but if it's related to Amazon i would have avoided it anyway, even if it was free. I actively boycott Amazon.