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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
murg is there something specifically on your mind that urged you to start this thread? 
It's an interesting thread, but I wondered if something occurred to prompt you to start it.  |
A number of reasons. First, it seemed to be a logical branching to the circumvention thread. Secondly, I just moved a lot of books from boxes to shelves, and don't really want to pay for the ebook versions of the physical books I already own.
I'm just trying to see if there was consensus of opinion, and it seems that the practices I suggested in the opening post aren't as objectable as the practises discussed in the circumvention thread (which ended up having nothing to do with circumvention).
Personally, seeing how, without intending to distribute it, we're pretty much allowed to make a copy of a physical book, in either physical or electronic form, I don't really see how acquiring an ebook that someone else did the work of format shifting is that much of a problem.