These days it's not uncommon for scanlation groups to be in it for the donation money. Well I say "group" but it's usually just the leader pocketing the money a

These days it's not uncommon for scanlation groups to be in it for the donation money. Well I say "group" but it's usually just the leader pocketing the money and recruiting bored / enthusiastic teens. The excuse is that they need money for buying books to scan or digitals, but imo unless they're working on many series, spending 1~3usd per chapter (at 4~8 manhours / chapter), isn't bad enough to warrant begging for donations. Plus the digitals tend to be free if they know where to look. On a lighter note, not every group is like this, like you mentioned, some people just genuinely think some stories are worth sharing. Others just wanted to practice reading / writing a foreign language and figured they might as well write the translation down and share that.