Glory be! The ratio! (OoP)

[ER <ression@hotmail.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "David <dfrankiswork at n...>" a 

> > pictorial analysis of each of the HP novels using a visualization 
> > technique like Text Arc http://www.textarc.org/ 
> 

> That site looks interesting - though I couldn't figure out what 
they are doing exactly.

They look to be showing the commonest words near the centre of the 
ellipse, less common ones further out. Round the edge of the ellipse 
is each sentence. If you hover over a word, lines join the word 
inside the ellipse to the sentence that contains it on the edge. This 
gives you a feel for how the word is distributed within the text. E.g 
in Hamlet, "Hamlet" appears pretty much throughout the text (duh!), 
whereas "ghost" appears in far fewer places and mostly in 
concentrated bursts.

> 
> > Now all I need is electronic 
> > versions of the texts. Ho hum.
> 
> I fear that is illegal at the present time.

Would it be illegal if one were to type a copy into a word-processor, 
from a book you'd bought, to do textual analysis on? Not that I'd be 
that mad ... just curious about the law.

ER