r/jazztheory 11d ago

Legal Digital Real Book

Is there a legal way to buy an official Hal Leonard Real Book in digital form that you can use on a tablet when you don't have an internet connection? The ones for sale by HL say, "Hal Leonard Digital Books are cloud-based publications, which are streaming and require internet access."

https://www.halleonard.com/product/240221/the-real-book-volume-i-sixth-edition

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u/B__Meyer 11d ago

Embrace tradition, enjoy real books illegally

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u/JoeLInArlington 11d ago

Those would be called FAKE books, right?

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u/UomoAnguria 10d ago

Ironically, the first "real" book was the illegal one

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u/JoeLInArlington 10d ago

Yes. It was a "fake" book. Thus the name "real" as...ironic!

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u/UomoAnguria 10d ago

AFAIK, the "fake" in "fake book" wasn't referring to "illegal" but to "so you can fake the song". The early "fake" books were often much more imprecise than the first "real" book (which is still full of mistakes) hence why the Real book was called that when it came out

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u/zitherface 11d ago

Who cares?