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Originally Posted by clockworkzombie
Speaking of format shifting. I have a multitude of paperbacks and I was thinking of purchasing a book scanner to scan in my treasured books to keep reading them in what ever digital device I use. What are the legalities there?
Whilst I was downloading the free versions of the EE Doc Smith stuff i found text files of the entire lensman series and downloaded these too. Some of these are not available for free.
I cannot purchase these books new. Could I treat it like my CDs? I copy my Cds into iTunes then pack the discs away, I feel a little uneasy about downloading these files and packing my books. I am happy to keep the paperbacks if I can pack them into boxes and not have them invaded by insects etc.
It is interesting I would have no qualms if I scanned them in myself. I understand I should keep my paperbacks that I format shift.
A pity there is not a pay for use publishing industry service to accept my books and giving me a digital copy instead. The first copy of any older book would have to be scanned in but the rest would have greater profit and the paper books could be destroyed or sold in a giant second hand book store where they would make even more money from luddites sneering at our new fangled readers.
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I have purchased EE Doc Smith's books twice as my first set, a mint condition late 70's early 80's collection was a victim of the failure of my first marriage. I re-purchased them second hand sometime afterwards though at the insistence of my then new partner (now wife of ten years)
I also found them online as PDF and decided to grab them. I have purchased the books twice, no? At least I can read his works on my PDA or smartphone whilst out and about. That said I would love to see Baen re-release his entire anthology! I would instantly purchase them as I have done with Poul Anderson's Technic saga (Flandry et al)