Why is Giles having his texts scanned?

[dragonyphoenix]

In the eight episode -  i, robot ... you, jane - why is Giles having his texts scanned? Jenny makes some comment about an index and a database but Giles hasn't gone near it. Given how much of a Luddite Giles is, the database is obviously not for him. He has no interest in using it at all.

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[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I've never thought about it, but how about this: Sunnydale High doesn't have a principal at the moment (Flutie dead, Snyder not yet in town). So teachers can pretty much make up their own rules for a few weeks. So Jenny, being a technopagan and jealous of Giles' collection of occult texts, decides to invent the scanning program just so she can have her own digital copies of his books.

Which means the message of the episode is "E-book piracy is evil". 10 years before Amazon came out with the Kindle, even.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

*laughs and laughs and laughs* "E-book piracy raises demons! Don't do it, kids." I can just see the commercial now. Awesome. And actually a plausible reason for why the books are being scanned. It also explains why Jenny showed up to check if the DB index was okay. ;-)