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Originally Posted by stumped
apologies if this is not the best forum for the question
is there any simple way to find out of a given title exists as an legitimate, available to buy epub ( i.e. to exclude pirated scans etc from the search results)
googling " book title epub" gives mostly dodgy site hits
my proxy search is to see if amazon sell a Kindle version but is there a better way ?
if a title does not exist in any e-book format, what is the legality / ethics of owning both a paper version and a downloaded scan. as I'm not willing to scan & compile several hundred individual pages myself ?
an example test case: Julian Jay Savarin: Waiters on the Dance. I have the hardback in the attic somewhere. There is no Kindle version. google search results look well dodgy.
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I think every country has a different way to see the legal issue.
In Italy you can not scan your book, because it is not "your book", you only have a right to read it. Also, scanning, you are creating a new version of the book, the digital version, and you can not.
Btw, you can digitalize a vinyl, for backup, but you can not download a digital copy made from another person.