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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
Because owning a copy of a book does not give me rights to distribute electronic copies of it. Copyright has an exception to allow me to make a copy for my personal backup. It doesn't give me the right to share that copy.
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They buy books with the stated intent of lending the book to the public. If they let the public borrow a papper copy or an electronic copy seems irrelevant to me.
Just to be a little more specific. The library can only make one electronic copy for each paper book they own and they can't lend out the paper book if they also lend the e-book. But the scanning OCR process pretty much destroys the book anyway. Also note, I don't suggest that they should be able to lend out their electronic copy simultenously to several borrowers. All I'm suggesting is that they should be able to decide if they want to have a paper copy or an electronic copy of a certain book. Then lend it in the same manner they have always done. Sorry, but I don't see any copyright violation in that. Nothing except format changes.