Go to bookshop.org. Buy the book you want. Then download from libgen or z-library guilt free. If you don't want the hardcopy, you can pass it on to a friend. St

Go to bookshop.org. Buy the book you want. Then download from libgen or z-library guilt free. If you don't want the hardcopy, you can pass it on to a friend. Start a tiny library in your neighborhood. Or just leave it on a coffeeshop table to entertain some random person. Bookshop.org is basically a coop organized by booksellers across the country. A local bookstore will fulfill your order and get the proceeds. Your purchase will support local businesses as well as pay the author. Bookshop does offer ebooks via My Must Reads, but their ebook format looks to be non-standard. Still, you could buy via Bookshop / My Must Reads and still download a friendlier version from libgen, etc. So there's an option which would avoid getting an unwanted physical book while supporting bookshops and authors. Kobo has a partnership with local bookstores, and supposedly gives them a cut. I don't know much about this, but it might be worth looking into. Kobo DRM is easily stripped so it would be a viable option. But Kobo is at least partially owned by Walmart and that might be something you'd rather not support. https://www.kobo.com/indie https://www.kobo.com/indie