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Originally Posted by DNSB
But even those books vendors generally state that you are purchasing a license and not actually owning the book. Since unlike Amazon, none of the other ereader brands I own have ever deleted books from my ereaders, I feel pretty safe that neither the books on my ereaders or in my calibre library will disappear on me.
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Technically with paper you only buy a licence to read the content. You can do what ever you like to the physical item, but not the actual content. At the end of the day a seller or publisher can only enforce such an ebook licence in court in a civil copyright case. They have to prove damages to get compensation even if they "win". Even "winning" is nearly impossible unless they prove you copied it to the Internet for public download, or similar (free, library – like Open Library/Archive Org – or charges makes no difference).
So those "licences" on selling sites are meaningless. Regular copyright laws apply. Photocopying or scanning an entire paper book to have a personal security copy or copying an ebook file for personal use is no different.