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