A better solution (Score 2, Insightful)

It is wrong ethically and ... to engage in work that is violating laws of our country and taking away from owners their hard earned rewards that they have worked and slogged days and nights to produce. On the other hand... Better way to address your problems are to support and develop electronic formats and buying books in these formats e.g. LaTeX, PDF etc (which don't yet prevent users from distributing) which individual writers can write and make available in formats that allow them to get returns that they would have normally gotten without going thru a publisher... And also people can print copies of that and mail it to you if you wanted a paperback version. But to not pay for somebody's hard work is akin to stealing and such is not the purpose and intent of our community.