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E-Books, best places to get them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Tattorack@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I want to get back into reading, so I'm thinking of getting a Paperwhite. But I have no idea if it's possible to transfer files to it from a computer, and I have no experience with pirating books.

Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?

EDIT: So many awesome answers on here! You guys have been very helpful. Thanks a lot!

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[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Just because no-one has mentioned it yet.

Your local library. You probably don't even have to go in, once you're account is set up you can check out books online.

[-] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

My biggest issue with ebooks in the library, and what led me into more ebook Piracy. Having to wait to check out a digital book. I know the library has to pay like yearly licensing subscriptions to a lot of these books, and it's just so annoying to me that it doesn't cover everybody having access to it. I sit on the library board and one thing we're talking about doing is a graphic novel service for a lot of the youth. And low key, I'm stoked for the graphic novel service too. But that one's unlimited access.

[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, maybe it's just the size of my library/library conglomerate, but I've never waited for an ebook.

[-] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

That's fair. I live in a very rural town

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Going into a library is like choosing a movie from Netflix. If you don't know what you want it's fine. But if you're after a specific book, big chances it's not there.

Example: I've read over 100 star Trek books, none of the libraries around me have any in the series, and I'm on a 3M people city.

[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That seems very odd to me. I've never been to a city library that can't get something they don't have. Obviously I'm biased by my own experiences.

I'm in Montréal (2-4M depending on how the library system is set up) and star wars has 1,099 hits. Video games, mangas, movies, tv shows, books illustrations, audiobooks, lego building guide ebooks, comics, etc. There might be some inflation in the figure for how some titles handle multi-lingual copies.

Karen Traviss is my favorite star wars author, followed by Timothy Zhan.