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Originally Posted by HarryT
I would fully accept this to be true when it comes to removing DRM from a book that you have legitimately purchased. It seems to me, however, that for a library book, the situation is completely different. You have not purchased the book; it's the library's book. I think there's a very good case to be made that you are violating the provisions of the DMCA by removing the one thing that makes a library book a library book: namely, the expiration.
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I coincidentally addressed this point just now in my post immediately above. GMTA, Harry.
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An important point, though (or so it seems to me) is that there is no "personal use" exemption. If there was intended to be such an exemption, don't you think it would have been explicitly listed in the list of exemptions?
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That wasn't me. I am not defending that notion.
ApK