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I'm considering doing a data science project which would involve automated analysis of at least several hundred (but probably less than a thousand) fiction novels that were published in the last few years. Ideally I would have a script check out the ebook, download it, remove the DRM, analyze it, delete my copy, and immediately return it. For this project piracy is not an option, the analysis must be done on legally-acquired ebooks. Since I'm not actually reading them I'm really concerned about the potential negative impact on the library and other patrons. I've tried googling how much checking out ebooks costs library's and the answers are constantly changing and mostly unknowable for me. I even found some librarians saying it's really just Good to check out ebooks because their budget depends on people actually using the resources so I don't know if I should be worrying at all. I won't be doing it all at once, I'll spread my borrowing across several systems, and I'll borrow some from Kindle Unlimited. Is that enough? I could also skip certain publishers, skip anything from bestseller lists/oprah/etc, or just skip any book that Overdrive says someone else has checked out a copy of. Am I way overthinking this?
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