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Originally Posted by nekokami
Some people might even feel that if you have purchased a book in any format, you are entitled to read it on the device of your choosing. Such people might, for example, feel no concerns about downloading scanned and OCR'd versions of books of which they own physical copies, simply for the sake of convenience and portability, knowing that they could, after all, scan and OCR their own book under the terms of "fair use."
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What "some people may feel", and what is
legal are, however, two different things. For example, under UK copyright law, "fair use" entitles you to make a copy of one chapter of a book, or one article from a magazine. Scanning an entire book is most definitely
not "fair use".