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Originally Posted by wallcraft
As you say, this is a classic example of fair use and it is generally thought to be legal in the US. What is not legal, as RWood said, is to download someone else's scanned/digitized version of the same book even though you own the pbook. This may seem to be a distinction without a difference, but that is the law and there has been at least one case like this for music where the downloader was held liable. Why anyone bothered to bring the case in the first place is a fair question, but sometimes legal proceedings have a momentum all their own.
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If you can legally make your own eBook from a pBook that you own, then downloading the same eBook being illegal is just stupid. Technically that may be the law, but what's the point? The end result is the same.