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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 6520511" data-attributes="member: 6779310">FYI, all the non-race, non-class rules from the PHB are in the Player's Basic Rules. It's word-for-word identical body text in Part 2. IIRC, one of the sidebars is missing.Further, a significant number of people have purchased the rulebooks and found pirate scans so that they can search the rulebooks easier, and cut and paste answers without retyping.Others, a smaller lot, have legitimately "format shifted" their own books by scanning and OCRing them themselves.  There is legitimate allowance for format shifting, at least in the US; it's explicitly allowed by US federal regulation.  (At least for the next year; those regs get reviewed and revised every three years.)Further, just because someone posts OCRed text, one cannot presume that they have gone the pirate route, nor even the full scan route; my tablet came with image-and-ocr capability. It's now pretty trivial to get readable OCR out.</blockquote>