Your favourite books/author

[Ravenshire]

Why not simply visit your local library's electronic resources instead of stealing what you want?

I live in Japan.

That somehow justifies theft?!?

[Silver]

Theft, pfft.

[Ravenshire]

Libby is part of overdrive, and they're really pushing it, but has not replaced it. Since I use Overdrive for Windows for audio books and Adobe Digital editions for ebooks, I can push them to my portables without Libby.

Yes, it can be frustrating to find a new author and find the local library has only half of their books, or worse, a new seven book series of which they have books 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7. That's not just a digital library issue though.

I did some checking with a close suburb of decent size and due to COVID they aren't allowing people who don't have an address in their town to get a library card.  I would assume digital libraries are doing a bang up business.

Odd how some places have circled the digital wagons while others have opened the digital flood gates. Some of the libraries here have done the same as yours has, others have made it easier to get a card, even offering full (digital only) access cards for up to a month before you have to get a physical card and their only requirement for the physical card is an address anywhere in Colorado.

[Ravenshire]

Theft, pfft.

Yes, theft.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Theft, pfft.

You do some writing, I know. Suppose you were published and were paid so much per book sale. Every pirated copy of your work reduces your income.

I don't know what the going rate is, but let's say you earn $1 for every book sold. I buy one copy of your book and then pirate 50 000 copies of it online. $50 000 that should have gone to you now goes to me.

How can you not consider that to be theft?

Boru

[Silver]

Money doesn't concern me like it does other people.

[Belacqua]

Money doesn't concern me like it does other people.

Four different people have seen fit to upload my book to Library Genesis. I consider this a compliment and a sincere expression of approval. Each of the four had to pay for it and then judged that it was something that deserved to be shared and distributed with others; there was no profit in it for them if they uploaded it. 

I wrote the book in the hope that people would read it. It's not cheap and I am thrilled that anyone can read it if he wants.

[onlinebiker]

Money doesn't concern me like it does other people.

It means a lot to me.


Send me yours and everyone will be happy.

[vulcanlogician]

Tolkien obviously. I'm not a Silmarillion level reader but Lord of the Rings (and the Hobbit) were my faves as a teenager. I also like the Dragonlance novels by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. I read a lot of fantasy when I was a teenager.

When I turned 18, I began reading a lot of philosophy and not much fiction anymore. (Maybe I should get back into it.) Plato and Nietzsche are my favorite authors in that respect. I like Tolstoy too... but never read his longer novels. Just his short stories and nonfiction. He's an excellent writer, as many are aware.

[Ravenshire]

Money doesn't concern me like it does other people.

Until you don't have any because someone stole yours.