see, it's like this

[rm]

yuki_onna has a great post about why it's perfectly easy to boycott books of people who say appalling bigoted stuff on the Internet.

It is not, as so many people seem to think, some dogmatic decision to only engage with people who think exactly like me. Rather, life is short, books cost money, and when it comes down to deciding what I want to read -- allowing for a few cases of staggering genius that actually makes these decisions complex -- I'm not going to read stuff by people who are hateful, threatening and rude to me and mine, online or off.

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[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Yeah - there are so many books I'd love to read, thousands and thousands more than I'll ever have time to - it's not much of a deprivation to take a few off the list (if they were ever on there to start with).

I suppose that if you were dying to read something written by someone you don't want to support, buying it used would be the way to do it. The writer gets nothing, you get cheap entertainment.