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Originally Posted by Quoth
Not sure about that. It's a little like having to buy a CD of a vinyl LP, or a BD version of a DVD.
I suppose getting your own copy scanned by someone else is a grey area if there is genuinely no ebook and the publisher is either gone bust or says they won't make an ebook. Less grey if you've gone blind and want the text to speech. Ray Kurzweil invented / developed OCR for scanners (among the first) precisely to give text to speech for blind.
Also USA court decided it's OK for Google not just to scan copyright works, but even borrowed ones, in entirety. Which seems like a bonkers decision. So maybe it's OK to make ebooks from copyright printed text if you do it for yourself?
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It is a grey area because you own the book but there is no eBook available. This is different then owning an LP and downloading the CD version instead of buying the CD. The eBook doesn't exist. The CD does exist.