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Originally Posted by latepaul
Of course it's a 2nd copy. The very fact that there's something to delete tells you that.
And the fact that it still exists in your account means you could download a new copy, or read it online.
"Lending" an ebook to someone is not like lending a paper book because once the paper book leaves your hands you no longer have access to it until it's returned.
That's true regardless of what view one takes about the rights and wrongs of the matter. We really need to start recognising that ebooks are a different kind of thing than paper books and that whether or not we want to allow similar types of behaviour (such as lending) is a separate question (and will necessarily be achieved in a different way).
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But that is just a technical issue. The real issue is sharing books with your friends and that sharing is not different in any relevant ways. That you might share ebooks at the same time really do not make it into a different category than sharing paper books.