Terms of Use
Last updated: August 2026
1. Accepting these terms
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2. Your account
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3. Community content
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4. Acceptable use
- No harassment, hate speech, threats or targeted abuse.
- No spam, scraping, vote manipulation or fake accounts.
- No illegal, infringing or sexually explicit material.
- No attempts to break, overload or reverse-engineer the service.
5. Moderation
Readers can report content, and our moderators may hide, restore or remove content and suspend accounts that violate these terms. Catalog corrections are reviewed by staff before they go live.
6. Book data
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7. Disclaimer and liability
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8. Changes
We may update these terms. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised terms.