Like most entertainment books, games, movies and music theres so much crap put out just for money and most of it isnt worth the time itd take to go shopping to buy it; let alone spend money on.
Downloading fixes that. Uploading helps others and shows you appreciate the other uploaders and downloaders.
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I second what has been said so far.
For me it is a little bit of everything listed in the voting poll.
Digital hoarding compulsion for starters. I must have all the books! Then as efufoo mentioned, there is so much junky stuff out there, most of it not worth spending money on. I like being able to test things out before spending my hard-earned money on them and I do spend a lot of money on books!
Every time I go out - which happens quite frequently - I must enter a bookstore and every single time I come home with at least one new book. Most of the time it is a book I had illegally downloaded, read and loved!
My other main reason for pirating books is that I can't buy them in my country.
Either a book never gets translated or the translation takes months to be completed and the finished product is just too expensive! Double the price of the original. However, I tend to read in English but that brings another issue: the English section at any bookstore around here is always way too small and they mostly carry mass market paperbacks sold at regular paperback prices! Ridiculous and very frustrating
The only option is ordering online, wish I do quite regularly thanks to sites like BookDepository that offer free worldwide shipping! But international online orders take quite some time to arrive and I can never wait that long and that's when Mobilism comes to rescue: I get to download the eBook while I wait for the paperback to arrive.
And that brings me to another point: as I've mentioned before I do buy a lot of physical books. I like collecting them and being able to display them in my bookshelves and, to be honest, holding a physical copy will always feel much better than holding an eReader but I also travel a lot. In fact, I'm currently living between 3 addresses so even though I own a lot of paperbacks I am physically unable to carry them around with me at all times and I simply cannot justify spending money twice for the same book.
I guess I could some up a few other points but this post is getting ridiculously long...
For me it is a little bit of everything listed in the voting poll.
Digital hoarding compulsion for starters. I must have all the books! Then as efufoo mentioned, there is so much junky stuff out there, most of it not worth spending money on. I like being able to test things out before spending my hard-earned money on them and I do spend a lot of money on books!
Every time I go out - which happens quite frequently - I must enter a bookstore and every single time I come home with at least one new book. Most of the time it is a book I had illegally downloaded, read and loved!
My other main reason for pirating books is that I can't buy them in my country.
Either a book never gets translated or the translation takes months to be completed and the finished product is just too expensive! Double the price of the original. However, I tend to read in English but that brings another issue: the English section at any bookstore around here is always way too small and they mostly carry mass market paperbacks sold at regular paperback prices! Ridiculous and very frustrating
The only option is ordering online, wish I do quite regularly thanks to sites like BookDepository that offer free worldwide shipping! But international online orders take quite some time to arrive and I can never wait that long and that's when Mobilism comes to rescue: I get to download the eBook while I wait for the paperback to arrive.
And that brings me to another point: as I've mentioned before I do buy a lot of physical books. I like collecting them and being able to display them in my bookshelves and, to be honest, holding a physical copy will always feel much better than holding an eReader but I also travel a lot. In fact, I'm currently living between 3 addresses so even though I own a lot of paperbacks I am physically unable to carry them around with me at all times and I simply cannot justify spending money twice for the same book.
I guess I could some up a few other points but this post is getting ridiculously long...
Financial mostly. I read so much that if I were to pay for all the books I've read, I'd be dirt-poor. I hope to one day be able to earn enough to stock my shelves with all the books that have made me happy. Also, there are times you read a book and it's good, but not a keeper. 
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Mostly to get books that I can't due to country restrictions. But there is a compulsive sense to get a back up ebook because oddly I buy all my books in paper form. I think that vendors refusing to issue electronic copies and treating them as separate units even as they play games with the rules irks me. Now if I could just find the same source for a single piece of music from the UK only Great British Bakeoff soundtrack I could rest easy knowing I bucked the system good!
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Financial mostly.
However I also find that I use the library a lot and find great books, however with an active 7 month old I never get them read before the due dates. I like having them to read when I do get the time and storing them for later if I really enjoy them
However I also find that I use the library a lot and find great books, however with an active 7 month old I never get them read before the due dates. I like having them to read when I do get the time and storing them for later if I really enjoy them
I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
–William Lyon Phelps
–William Lyon Phelps
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I had to choose Financial. The reason is honestly I'm so addicted to reading and books. If i had to buy them all the time I would literally be homeless and starving. I would end up carrying around hundreds of books to and from my hideout to work just so I could stop by the bookstore to buy even more books on my way back to my hideout. I kept track one time and found I spent hundreds on books a month. I have curbed my purchases but not my reading. So i make due with ebooks, library books and my $50 monthly book purchases.