[Tef61]

I've been thinking of getting a kindle, but many of the textbooks I would love to read on it are not available in native format (they are small textbooks though that would fit on the screen).

However, I happen to have access to a book scanner (or at least something I can feed a book through once I've chopped off the binding). My question is, if I were to scan one of my textbooks and OCR it with Adobe Professional could I then send that PDF to amazon to convert it to the appropriate kindle format? Would this raise flags with them? Is it even legal? How do they know I didn't just download the book illegally? Is there some kind of privacy policy in the book conversion (perhaps they never look at the files that go through their service) so this won't even be an issue?

I'm just trying to figure out if this is an option. There are plenty of books I CAN buy for the kindle but it seems silly for me to have to carry around 5 books that I can't along WITH an ebook reader.

Perhaps there is an alternate procedure for getting something like this done?

I would love to hear everyone's thoughts.