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Do you buy rent or borrow? Or do you have a subscription of some kind? Do you read physical books or do you read ebooks?

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[–] Engywuck@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I pirate shamelessly. Z-lib is my to-go.

[–] PanaX@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ellabella@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Book Depository closed the other month, I don't know if Amazon understood how important it is for people outside US and EU, but the closure really pushed everyone I know to casually switch back to piracy.

[–] Los@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What? The website looks the same to me?

[–] ellabella@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Where are you looking

[–] eduardm@feddit.ro 1 points 1 year ago

It feels so good to finally say this outright. Arrr!

[–] bran@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I buy (used) physical books for every book I read, other than humble bundles (typically for programming e-book bundles). I put a lot of my income toward books though, which is maybe not advisable, but I simply love having a ton of books in my home

I typically buy used books on ebay when I want something specific (often technical books), but for fiction I often browse one of the used bookstores around me, or grab a random book from one of those little library book-boxes-on-a-stick. I like to follow the whimsical approach of reading books that come to me

[–] books@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip about the humble bundle with Oreilly books. Didn't know they had one for that and just picked it up!

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