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  "limitations": [
    "This is an audit of one site's selected publication corpus, not a representative sample of all queer romance or all readers.",
    "Counts describe documented profile evidence and cannot measure book quality, popularity, reader identity, or universal preference.",
    "Source availability is uneven; unknown means unconfirmed, not absent.",
    "Model-assisted classification was constrained by deterministic normalization and human-defined publication rules; it is not source evidence."
  ],
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the published aggregate dataset; underlying third-party facts and works retain their own rights.",
  "citation": "Queer Romance Books (2026). Queer Romance Reader-Fit Evidence Index 2026, version 2026.1. Observed 2026-09-01.",
  "review": "Independent automated adversarial release review on 2026-09-01 checked the computation, limitations, wording, and reproducibility boundary; this is not external subject-matter-expert endorsement."
}