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I feel having to pay for a book I already own is unacceptable. Neither would exchanging a p-book for a DRM encumbered e-book. That would be a downgrade since p-books do not have DRM. While the concept of downloading an e-book from the darknet to replace a p-book seems ethical on the surface, it is in, at best, a legal gray area due to conflicting and/or biased laws, which may make it ethically wrong if one values abiding by the laws (that is another debate for another place and time).
I'm taking the easy way out by cutting apart my p-books and scanning each one to a PDF that is a collection of images of each page, then discarding the pretty much destroyed p-books thus media shifting my books, which is legal here in the US. I don't have the time or energy to run each book through OCR and edit the scans so I'm having to settle for using readers that are capable of reading the resulting images of my scans. It's a compromise I can live with in exchange for increased portability of my books and dramatically reduced storage requirements (over 1200 p-books in over 30 large document storage boxes reduced in size to a small portion of a harddrive).
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