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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
The problem is the destroying of the original paper book. If you keep both, your self made copy and the original paper book it is fairly obvious it is okay. Morally and quite possibly legally under fair use or similiar. But what happens legally when you destroy the paper book? The ownership of said physical copy is the "license" that allows usage. If ownership changes you are supposed to get rid of your copies. Ownership does change by destroying.
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1. the chance of this ever getting prosecuted are pretty much zilch.
2. given (1), the owner/copyer/destroyer of the book knows they've acted morally, assuming they aren't handing out the book.
3. If I were personally to do this, I would consider destroying the book but keeping the cover.
I actually have a similar scenario myself - I have some old cassette tapes I'm converting to MP3 - they either don't exist on CD or aren't worth buying new copies. I'm keeping the insert and getting rid of the cassette. That saves me the storage space of the cassette and a small stack of inserts is negligible to store. I have no moral qualms with such a format shift and I won't be passing on copies to anyone else.