Practically every legislation has provisions for personal copies of copyrighted works.
These provisions are however very different from one country to another.
The cleanest legal way to do it is to retype the desired passages onto a new format (in MS Word or Notepad etc.). That was done before in handwriting. Today you can photocopy it (and pay a tax to
their tax collectors), you can scan it (no tax for scanners), you can photograph it (no tax for photoapparatus), you can film it (subjected to tax). This does not change the act of copying. Because what you're after is the information not the paper or the bits or the colours. A newspaper is only valuable
before reading the NEWSFLASH,
after is only good as toilet paper or windows cleaner or barbecue fire starter.
Leaving the law apart, for private use you are quite safe, nobody will come (in the foreseeable future) to search your home. But since copyright infringements are at least in the States a criminal (and federal) act, you'll "enjoy" the benefits every murderer has
