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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Its only purpose is to violate someone's copyright, so it would be very easy for any publisher to get an injunction against it.
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In the US, it is generally thought to be a "fair use" to scan physical books you own for the purposes of archiving, or reading as scans on your own computers, or even OCRing to an ebook for use on your own reading devices. This is essentially identical to ripping a CD, see
Ripping - Legality.