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by TFNA 4 days ago
You don't have to actually pay for ebooks. I have been an avid reader on a Kindle and then a Kobo for over a decade, and I have never once bought an ebook. Even in 2015 the shadow libraries already had nearly everything I was ever looking for. Nowadays with Anna's Archive, downloading ebooks is made so convenient that even my normie friends use it.