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Originally Posted by ApK
NO! You can NOT keep it indefinitely. No more than you can keep indefinitely the COPY of the MP3 audio book or video they let you put to your iPod.
You COULD pirate any of those thing, but you MAY not, and if you don't you have not violated the the spirit of the agreement at all.
You are upholding the spirit by making it possible to use the thing for the period you agree to. It would be against the spirit of the agreement if the library, your tax-support public institution for the dissemination of information to the public, PREVENTED you from using the information because of some misguided interpretation of an ill-conceived rule.
Many countries, like Canada, are working to make sure such use is explicitly and clearly protected by law, as it was NEVER the intent of laws like the DMCA to prevent it, and we should be pressuring our reps to do the same.
ApK
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Yes, you can. you should not, but you can.
It's really simple - the library lends books for people to read on authorized, ADE compatible devices - and anyone who strips the DRM to read it on a Kindle is breaking the terms of the loan.
If you want to officially be able to read library books on a Kindle, you need to find a way to get Amazon and the libraries to agree on a method to enable it.
Fair use is about doing what you want with
your property.
Library books are
not your property, and the library has the right to set limits on what you do with their books. You may or may not agree with those limits, but they still have the right to set them.