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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly you can do the same with an eBook - by physically lending your eBook reader, with the book on it, to other people. That is the exact equivalent of lending someone your hardback book, and is absolutely fine. You break no laws if you do that.
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To me, the exact equivalent would be giving up access to that ebook from your own reader(s) while your friend reads your copy (like what libraries do). What you propose is the same as handing over every paper book in your possession to someone that only wants to borrow one of them. So lending someone your ereader is in no way equivalent to lending them a paper book. I suppose you could buy a few extra ereaders just for lending to other people, but that's a considerable extra cost, and you will be limited by the maximum number of DRM activations whereas you have no such extra costs or limits with your paper copies. I think there is no exact equivalent as things stand.