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Re:Show HN: Build a Kindle book of PG's essays by cowsaysoink on Sunday November 18, 2012 @01:23PM (#4801121)
Scraping content isn't bad if you aren't redistributing it, technically your web browser is scraping content in the same sense.

http://paulgraham.com/robots.txt doesn't disallow robots from reading the essays.

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Re:Show HN: Build a Kindle book of PG's essays by tangue on Sunday November 18, 2012 @02:16PM (#4801261)
Let's not be naïve. This is geek-clad redistribution.
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