Well, my friend, he's kinda poor he can't afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don't understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the author or just wants to skim through it, he will download the book.
He usually doesn't like to pirate from small companies or professors who are trying to make a living by selling books, but from millionaires & plenty of mega corps which already have loads of money, he feels like it's the right move to pirate
Also, have you ever noticed that you have felt that the value of a product has decreased just because you didn't pay for it, thus you are less interested to read it? i.e., had you paid for the book, you would have more likely read that book.
He says he will buy stuff when his time is more valuable than money, let's all hope that day is soon.
What are your piracy habits?
Do some research into long term storage media. (Probably Terrabyte size USB drives) Read reviews and specs to see if anybody mentions how many read/writes the things can go through before failures start and if they've got anything that slows bit loss. I've got a cheap 1TB thumb drive for like 20 bucks that I just use for moving large files around between ancient computers and occassionally trying to figure out how to get a Linux OS to work on something old I have in the house. So, you know, 20 ~30 bucks US a month and you will have 12TB of long term storage that can fit into a small jewelry box with space to spare. Just don't forget which sticks have what stuff so that you can find it when you need it.
Other than that, you should be able to find some services that just run servers that do nothing but store stuff in "the cloud" in encrypted drives that you can access in various ways. If you've got the extra cash, its probably way more affordable than you think it is.