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Originally Posted by HarryT
Precisely. If you strip DRM to get rights you shouldn't have, then that's a violation. And that's exactly what you're doing when you strip library DRM - you're getting rights you shouldn't have: namely, the right to keep the book indefinitely. Whether or not you choose to exercise that right is of no relevance; the important point is that by removing the DRM you have gained a right that the copyright holder did not intend you to have.
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It should also be noted that library Overdrive system also provides content in MP3 format, as well as other mobile formats that have no technological enforcement of the check-out period. They seem to have no problem with having the admonition to "delete all copies in your possession" as the sole license enforcement mechanism.