Tyear:
Not saying we should all start pirating, I have my books bought & paid for make no mistake.
I do like to check out a system before I buy it, same idea basically with video-games. Why would I pay 60 bucks for something I might not like and seeing as nobody 'loans' stuff out anymore.
Because, whatever way you want to justify it, it's illegal. Whether you agree with that or not is immaterial, but people rely on those products selling to get their salary, and the laws of most of the countries we live in state that sharing or downloading paid digital content from an unlicensed source is illegal, and I would prefer you not advise someone to illegally download a book I had the privilege to work on, made by people I have the privilege of calling my friends.
Doing so in front of someone involved in the creation of the book is, to put it bluntly, disrespectful. It's as bad as the people who suggested the very same time on the FFG forums - you just don't do it.