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FrustratedReader: I'm speaking of the late 70s when photocopiers were huge clunky things which were only owned by libraries and certain shops. Ebooks were a twinkle in someone's eye. The library photocopies were usually just chapters etc, not whole books.
But I think that you'll find, even now, copyright exception is made both on the grounds of fair use and on the grounds of study or review. Many student versions of software, for example Microsoft Office, is hugely discounted.
But this is getting away from the point that if I give my ereader to a friend to read one of the books on it, I'm doing nothing more or less than I would if loaning them a paper book. (I actually never 'loaned' books, knowing they would not be returned I accepted that I was in fact 'giving' them.)
For the sake of argument, let's assume that I have no copies of the ebook/s on my computer, or anywhere else; so to read them again, I would need to purchase them again.
How does that infringe copyright?
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