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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Are you saying that personal use effectively lets you "change the locks" on someone else's property?
Why should any legal decision regarding what you are able to do with your own property have any bearing on what you can do with the library's property?
I know that when it comes to paper books I can do a lot with my own books that I can't do with the library's. In fact, it could be argued that removing the DRM from library eBooks is the equivalent of removing the bar code, card, and holder from a dead tree library book - and I think we can all agree on how happy that would make the librarians.
So, while yes, it is possible to read library books on Kindle - the fact that it requires stripping the information that proves it's the library's book rather than one's own, makes it at best an unauthorized and at worst a possibly illegal option.
It all comes back to the first rule of library books: they're not yours.
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The thing is, the library's property is unchanged.
Even the file I downloaded is unchanged.
I'd definitely not do it if it had any effect on their property.
As it is, I see it as no different from using one of those handheld OCR/TTS vocalizers on one of their paper books so I can listen to it instead of read it.