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I went researched a few years ago and concluded that there is no option for writers to be guaranteed "no piracy" and that's why they prefer having paperbooks. (That is also after brainstorming with a few people to publish my own book if it were...) and those days i was trying to find an important book in electronic format and could not find it anywhere, the paper 10th edition version (which i eventually bought) is like 1000 pages and the e version i found was 200 ish pages summary. So my sad conclusion was that i just need a big'ol scanner at home, just so that i can scan everything that i buy in paper just because i could then keep it personally on my e-reader (and having destroyedbinding of each book i buy lmao).... is that too much to ask... my wife says no.... lol