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Originally Posted by radleyp
I'm afraid that's not true. When you buy the book, you can do what you want with it.
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To my knowledge, the only intellectual property sold to the public that allows what you suggest is software, which gives you the explicit right to make a backup copy. Printed books do not have this as such, although your point is more of what's practically enforced that what the copyright law states.
No one will go after anyone making a private copy of a book either photocopying or transcribing as you describe, although I believe they could but wouldn't, because they would not be able to prove damage of any kind.
If one sells a pirated copy or distributes it free, then obvious monetary damage can be proven and thus one could conceivable get into trouble.
Back in the days of cassettes, we all taped our albums to play in our cars, and it was widely accepted (but not legal), so long as you didn't sell or giveaway the cassette, thus infringing on the copyright holder's rights. Same thing on a book: you copy it for yourself, no one's going after you in a practical sense or ever would...but it's not "technically" legal to do so...or more to your point, it's not practical to police such a thing in a private setting.