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Originally Posted by cfrizz
I stopped loaning out paper books when I 1. didn't get them back. 2. got the book back all messed up!
No one has ever asked me to lend them an ebook, but if they did, I probably would do so. If I pay for it, it is mine to do as I wish.
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The paper book is a physical entity. You can loan it. But even should you have an industrial free automatic scanner or copier, you can't copy the content to someone, that's part of what copyright means.
But you can only loan an ebook by loaning the device that has it (like the paper has the printed words). If you give a file, it's giving a copy, breaking copyright, as if you scanned or photocopied a paper book.
Paper book: You own the paper, and have a right to read it. You don't own the content.
eBook. You own the ereader, and anyone can read the ebook on it. You don't own the content any more than you do for the paper book.
There are ways the ebook could be transferred, in theory, but a loan isn't one of them. I do loan ereaders. I don't loan files.