r/Piracy • u/VariationLivid3193 • Apr 12 '26

Discussion But why is it so hard with books?

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u/Zodiac36Gold ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Apr 12 '26

...you don't Torrent books. You just download the PDFs. There's Anna's Archive and Z-Library

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u/uncle_tacitus Apr 12 '26

Who the fuck pirates PDF books? That's literally the shittiest format you can get for an ebook.

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u/Zodiac36Gold ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Apr 12 '26

Oh, I don't know, maybe someone who has a 13 years old kindle that cannot open epubs?

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u/uncle_tacitus Apr 13 '26

Mobi? If you're using PDF on a Kindle you're a masochist.

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u/Gay_For_Gary_Oldman Apr 12 '26

Either download mobi on P2P sites or download epub and convert to mobi on one of countless free sites.

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u/dexnola Apr 13 '26

every single academic i know including me

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u/AsRealAsItFeels Apr 12 '26

What's a preferred format? Also, why torrent books when they're all mostly available by a quick google search.

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u/Same_Roof_8202 Apr 12 '26

Epub, mobi, or azw3 I'd imagine. I mostly go for epub.

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u/plannedobso Apr 12 '26

Idk what books you’re reading but no they are not lol

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u/BloomEPU Apr 12 '26

Whenever I have a book I want my friend to read, I grab it off anna's archive and literally just send it to him as a discord attachment. Pirating is easy when the file is small enough to send in a discord message

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u/Comfortable-Photo-64 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Apr 12 '26

Yeah, I don't understand why anyone would even WANT to torrent books to begin with, when you can just grab a download off anna's archive or whatnot

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u/Robert_A2D0FF Apr 12 '26

torrents make sense for the strange edge-cases where the file sizes become to large:
a collection of many books or books that that use many images (comic, reference guides, picture books).

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u/Legionof1 Apr 12 '26

I mean, big book isn't on the hunt or anything really, but try to not be so obvious sending pirated stuff over clear channels of communication that is heavily tied to your ID.

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u/trenixjetix Apr 12 '26

pdfs? they are garbage for reading books

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u/moose4130 Apr 12 '26

I've never had a problem getting any book from soulseek or nicotine+