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As I prepare to enter a legal profession, I have become even more interested in legal literature. So I renewed my student membership to Book Share. And that is when I discovered something that annoyed me. Not quite to the point of anger, but I was irritated. Court reporter books are still largely on paper. If I see a court reporting ebook, chances are it’s a novel, a story about the court reporting profession instead of a handbook or procedure manual. But if I type in words like paralegal, legal research, legal writing, legal handbook? Oh, then there are too many results to peruse in one go. So the question then becomes, do I submit court reporter book requests to the Book Share wish list? I’ve done this before, and eventually the books I requested did get added to the collection. Do I contact publishers and request an ebook copy, knowing they may decline unless I buy the book? I don’t mind paying for accessible material. Do I pay for a scanning service to scan a book? Also an option. Or do I just leave the whole thing alone and consult paralegal literature, since the professions do have some overlap in terms of what we are supposed to know? This is what I have found myself pondering over the past week. And of course, there is no one right answer to this dilemma.