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Originally Posted by ratinox
Legally, yes. Copyright protects each instance of a work individually. The fact that you purchased an original copy of a work does not entitle you to receive or distribute duplicates of that work from other sources.
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In the US, if you
purchase something copyrighted that is delivered digitally, you have the exact same rights as if you purchased a physical object which contain copyrighted material. You can make as many copies as you want for personal use. You just can't distribute the copies to other people.
In this case, though, no one actually purchases eBooks from Amazon. You pay for a license to read them. As such, you are not permitted to remove DRM, read on non-Kindle devices, etc.
So, my answer is that if you are going to violate the licensing anyway by removing DRM and putting the copy onto something that isn't a Kindle, then there's not much difference in then borrowing the eBook from a library and removing the DRM, since you have at some point paid for a copy that you believe you own (hence the desire to remove DRM from the Amazon "purchase").
What you have to watch out for is that when you borrow an eBook from a library when you could already read that eBook, you are costing the library money (the cost of a single borrow) that it should not have to spend.