[quote=@Hank]
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Why wouldn't you pay for a book? It's obviously very easy to get your hands on free digital copies using less-than-legal means but that deprives the author (or his estate) of (in my opinion) rightful compensation. 
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Eh, most books I read nowadays tend to be written by people who've died about a few hundred years ago.