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also my stance on paywall... it depends for academic translation technically it's transforming the work. for contemporary translation it's under the table, I wish part of the money would go to the original author and sum parts of it to the translator... dunno
I was pretty invested in one story and currently there are 40/125 chapters out for free. I did the math for how much their premium currency is for the rest of the chapters and it's about $18.99. that's the price of a premium book. and I do think the translation is worth it, prefect grammar and a large vocabulary.
though I do want a pdf file or a different site in case access to this novel goes down. I had paid for other chapters for other fan-translations before but due to copyright infringement access to those chapters crashed and burned. you think this is something I could reach out for or just save my money and wait for official translation in English(?) last time I waited for the official translation I had waited for 2-3 years before their translator for that work went on hiatus or smth