Oh gosh, I hope no one here thinks I'm their ticket to making it big. It was really more a am I reading these books now or in possibly a few years time question.(broke)

I do definitely agree that laws and ethics are seperate and should always be thus. there are to many possibilities in this world to account for in law. To many laws created by the well off.

Thank you for supporting that idea so strongly throughout this thread.

Thank you! Will look into.

It's likely. Mould and perfume allergies both run in the family. I've been trying to live around that regardless of if I have it, so my family can still visit.

The opinion as an author is definitely appreciated! I had no idea making a book could be so expensive. Thank you for both the insite and your contribution to the world of words.

Will definitely look into that! That's well within the budget both for rebuying and for the wanted list. Patients and wanting the same thing for years before I get it are both my strong suits. Thank you.

I was under the impression that you need a prescription to get reading glasses? Or do mean the magnification style ones?

Thank you! I'm mostly ok as I'm I slow reader that likes to stare into the distance in thought, just automatically. It's still good to keep in mind though. (Damned eyes and their many refusals)

I'm in QLD Australia. Are there specific sites or do you just find a random site and hope it's legit?

It's less letting Reddit decide and more asking for a broader range of opinions. Like I said most of my friends are pro piracy. I got the vibe this space would be both against it and not aggressive about that point. This is just me looking at all sides of the debate.

"I occasionally do that and don't see anything wrong with it, but obviously its still technically against the law." I'm glad I'm not the only one!

I haven't had a library card in years but hoopla does seem to have my area (or at least the area I last had a library card at). I'll have to pull myself together on the weekend when the library is open. Thank you very much for the suggestion!

The issue of "what is owning something in the modern day?" Or "whether the second hand book market is ethical?" are not quite the issues I expected to come from this question. I suppose however, that the vast interconnectedness of the world, is part of what makes ethics fun to discuss in the first place.

Remembering to properly delete any digital copies if I ever give up, sell, lose, or otherwise damage the original book. Thus maintaining that as my "book access pass" is basically the take I've gotten from this?

Is it stealing to pirate a book, or is it abelist and classist to prevent someone who needs it, from getting the kind of book they need.(a bit of an exaggeration of those terms I know.) To have the right to a service, someone else must be obliged to provide it. If making and maintaining a book in brail is more labour intensive, then you should charge more to compensate the labourer. If being born blind makes books more expensive then isn't that injust?

I'd say it's both which is why I asked for further insight. I believe that authors should be properly compensated for their work, and that I shouldn't have to pay for secondary copies of books I already own to correct a health issue. These are conflicting beliefs and thus both buying E versions and pirating the books will cause cognitive dissonance.

That's definitely a way of looking at it. I did photo copy a book I couldn't read about a year ago when this all started. It was a short book and still took long enough that I'm not game to go again. I did not feel any moral issue in that action.

Am trying on the eyes front, thank you for your concern.

That's an amazing resource! Thank you! Two of the very books I frustratingly cannot read, are on there. I will definitely take advantage of that before looking any further into piracy.

I have heard that of Amazon. The world sure is a magical and generous place.