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Originally Posted by BWinmill
It's also worth noting that the law is sometimes conflicting. One part of the law may say it's legal to shift formats, but another will say that it is illegal to remove copy protection mechanisms. Or it may be legal to shift formats, but the source format is patented so the software to decode it is probably illegal.
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This. The law in the US is conflicted, so we really won't know for sure until someone goes to court over it and the appeal goes high enough. For all practical purposes, if you are really just format shifting an ebook that you legally purchased, purely for your own use, then the odds of someone suing you is very, very low.
In other countries, it might be different.