|
The law is incredibly blurry about this. However, if you do, and don't share/copy/distribute the ebooks to anyone else, nobody is going to come after you for this. I regularly scan & convert my own books to ebooks.
Most of us think this counts as fair use, under the same legal ruling that lets you record a TV show on VCR tape to watch later, or rip a CD to MP3s: time- and format-shifting have been ruled legal.
In some countries it's definitely illegal; in others, it's legal. In the US, it's unclear, but the practical answer is definitely "nobody who has the power to sue anyone else, cares."
|