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There's also Kobo... Kindle... epubs..
Not just pdfs.
Heck you can get audio books. Most books are now sold with recording.
This has been happening for decades.
Are all you people complaining here just not book readers and just here for pure out rage?
Ok? That doesn’t answer my question, if anything it makes it more obvious how you are incorrect:
If a [insert digital format name] already exists, as you claim, then why go to the trouble of obtaining, destroying, and scanning the books again?
Your response reads like there are more options than just PDF, so it’s fine to destroy the books.
They bought a copy of a book. They gonna do with it what they want. It's their's. Not your's. Their's.
You didn't buy it. And you didn't care about it till now. Over something you didn't buy. Someone else did.
So now you are outraged they are making copies? This has been happening since copy machines were invented.
You're outraged they destroyed THE ONE COPY they bought? (NOT ALL. JUST ONE)
They recycled rather than hoarded. Good for them.
This happens every day since books and other things were invented to manage unwanted junk.
If you want it go buy a copy and support the author, go for it. You want to recycle? Go for it. Both things are not illegal. Nor should they be.
I don't get your problem here. Seems like you're too stupid to know what to outrage about.
It's like you discovered that dirt exists for the first time and how dare someone shovels dirt in some unmarked area you never even knew or cared existed to make a trench.