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kleinbl00  ·  4454 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: By the numbers: Why eBooks will be much larger than you imagine
I got one for Christmas. It kicks ass. I like it a lot. So when I discovered the Foxfire books weren't available on Kindle, I torrented them. now they're PDF, and damn skippy they're on my Kindle.

I own Bill Mollinson's Permaculture book. It was a gift; no way I would have paid $90 for it. But then, I also have the torrent of it. I paid nothing. I'm probably more likely to read it on my Kindle, even though I have a $90 book - the random access is really important to me.

Kids stole music before iPods. Everybody stole music after ipods. The Kindle is the book world's iPod. The only real difficulty is it is necessary to destroy a physical copy of a book for it to become a torrent; however, it only has to happen once.