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Old 03-14-2015, 05:32 AM   #82
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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.
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?

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