[alistairSH]

Where do you buy your e-books?

I've stuck with Kindle, but that's 80% inertia (Amazon has most books, the device works well enough) and 20% existing library is Kindle e-books.

[roughly]

Kobo has a bookstore that’s pretty comprehensive - I haven’t found anything missing. Not sure that gets you out of DRM land, but at least you’re not giving money to Jeff Bezos.

[bentley]

For public domain books, I use Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive, generally in that order.

For copyrighted books, anywhere as long as it provides DRM‐free EPUB or PDF.

• Humble Bundle introduces a nice sale every few days. Key marker for DRM‐free: “Use on Any Device”. Representative recent purchases: complete Peanuts (42 vols.) for $25, complete Wheel of Time (17 vols.) for $18, complete Malazan (17 vols.) for $18, complete Lone Wolf and Cub (28 vols.) for $18… I check Humble pretty regularly now.

• Kobo Store. Key marker for DRM‐free: “Download options: EPUB 3 (DRM-Free)”.

• Google Play. Key marker for DRM‐free: “Content protection: This content is DRM free.”

• Barnes and Noble. Key marker for DRM‐free: “At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.”

Amazon rolled out DRM‐free ebooks (for some books) earlier this year, but at this point they’ve permanently lost my business.

Also, sites to purchase DRM‐free audiobooks:

• Libro.fm

• Downpour

[avgDev]

One could buy a physical book, and then "find" digital version of it. Seems fair to me?

[phs318u]

Seems fair to me too. I have done and continue to do this. I have no ethical qualms doing so. Should I?

[alistairSH]

I don’t. I just don’t want physical books. I don’t have the space to store them. And the kindle is far more portable.

[johanyc]

You can throw the physical book away or recycle it as paper. Buying them is just to make payments for the pirated books.

[phs318u]

Please don’t do this. At least donate to your local library or thrift store.