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Ask HN: How (not) OK is it to analyze text from SciFi books using torrents?
I had a cool idea today I wanted to try. It would be a comparison of popular science fiction and fantasy books and the language used in those books. I would absolutely love to share my results on the internet.
I worry though that it would be crossing too many lines to download ebook torrents and also post my text analysis results.
Is torrenting ebooks too immoral? Are there other options to getting plain text scifi/fantasy books?
- dozzie 10y ago> Is torrenting ebooks too immoral? Are there other options to getting plain text scifi/fantasy books? You forgot that you can access most of the books at libraries. How immoral is that? How immoral is researching using books borrowed from a library?