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I'd go for option 2, as far as I'm concerned if I buy a book I'm actually buying a license to read the words inside. As long as I have paid for the right to read something I have no qualms about seeking out those same words in another form.
Regarding option 3; I wouldn't worry too much about the legalities of scanning the books you own, as long as you don't distribute the eBook.
Firstly there is almost no chance that anybody would find out you were scanning your own books. Secondly even if publishers knew for a fact that you were doing so they would not prosecute - it would be a public relations nightmare.
Prosecuting people for unauthorised sharing is one thing, at least some of the public would see such proceedings as being just. Prosecuting for format shifting when one has paid to access the content is something else, the vast majority of the public would consider that an unfair abuse of power by the publisher.
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