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Originally Posted by greveg
I've been searching the forums for a thread much like this one lately, and haven't had any luck. I know that this is predominantly an ebook forum, but recently I've been getting into bookbinding as a hobby and was checking into the legality of converting and printing my non-DRM books into signature format. Any thoughts??
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Hi greveg. Welcome to the forums. See above posts concerning the technical legal issues with that aspect of your hobby, but there is a solution.
There are tens of thousands of books freely available in the public domain. These are books that are out of copyright. You could actually make a tidy business out of publishing new editions of these works in your signature format because the original paper versions of the books have been out of print for so long.
If you go to the
Gutenberg Project, you'll find those tens of thousands waiting for you. They've already been transcribed from the original and converted into txt, html and ebook format. There are those who would pay real money to have some of these books reconverted to paper format. I can think of more than a few I'd like to have in my personal meat-space.
Drop me a PM.