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Originally Posted by mgmueller
If I can't get it legally, but want to read it, I try to get it elsewhere.
Perfect example: Lord of the Rings. Had them as scanned PDFs, bought them as soon as they've been available. Harry Potter still isn't available...
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Scanned PDFs? Shudder. The text versions have bounced around usenet since the year 2000, and probably earlier. (And they weren't spelled "Tha Hobbit.")
I've often wondered why publishers don't scour newsgroups & the torrent sites for bootleg ebooks, and then edit those by comparing with the print edition, instead of starting with scans and lousy OCR.