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Originally Posted by HarryT
Services like "1dollarscan" in the US allow you to "format shift" a book, but the reason that's legal is because it's a destructive process - it's a genuine format shift, rather than creating a copy. The original is (and has to be, in order for it to be legal) destroyed in the scanning process.
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They need to cut off the spine for the scanning, otherwise it would be a much more expensive process. But bookscan.us offers to return the pages of the scanned book, for a fee (not of much practical use, but they only destroy the pages because sending them back costs money). Do they violate US law by this? (That's a genuine question.)
BTW, I think that 1dollarscan originated in Japan, and that their main reason for scanning books was their small apartments, so the idea was to scan books to save space -- so, destroying the printed copy was the purpose of the whole operation?