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[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I have an ereader and I've never bought an ebook. The fact that they're priced the same as paperbacks is absurd.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I like to go check out the book I want from the library, and when it gives me the Amazon DRM version I just go search for the epub version online and download that. IIRC, completely legal as I have legal access to the book...somehow.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

IDC personally. I remember publishing houses basically forcing the Internet Archive to stop letting people downloading books during the fucking pandemic. They killed fair use, fuckem.