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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Morally, in my opinion, if you own a paper copy of the book in question, I see nothing wrong with obtaining a digital copy of that book from someone else, IF that digital copy came from a non-commercial scanning effort.
However, if it's a pirated copy of the commercial ebook, then (again, all IMO, as are all moral questions) there is something a little bit wrong with it, since the commercial publisher who created the ebook has spent money converting and formatting the ebook edition, and is entitled to some return on the expenditure.
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And just how do you discern the source of the e-book?