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[–] Schorsch@feddit.org 96 points 2 days ago (12 children)

"your" ebooks. – You never owned them in the first place. And if buying isn't owning, questionably acquired ebooks aren't stolen.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Check if it’s available on your library website first, for the sake of the author.

[–] yenahmik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I download books from my library to my kindle. It goes through Amazon though, so I assume I am also impacted by this BS.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It shouldn’t. The DRM is on the Amazon book file format. The books I get from my library are usually epub format.

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