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Originally Posted by Jellby
Yes, provided you can do that without circumventing DRM or breaking other laws...  |
Theoretically, cracking DRM to make a personal copy is legal, because you're not cracking it for the purpose of violating copyright. (Arguing that distribution of DRM-cracking scripts is for the purpose of format shifting should also be possible. I heartily recommend it. To someone with a really strong team of lawyers, and citizenship in a country with no US extradition treaty.)
But since this was about scanning books you own to make ebooks, DRM doesn't enter the picture. (Yet. Until some publisher's lawyer decides to claim that Rowling's "DRM" is "not making them digitally available at all" and goes after file-sharers for DMCA violations instead of normal copyright violations.)