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Originally Posted by HarryT
But that's a big "if". Is it fair use to make a complete copy of a book? It's difficult to think of any reasonable justification for wishing to do so.
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A student or researcher might want a letter/A4-sized complete copy for markup purposes. Copying an entire book to single-sided paper in a binder would allow for extensive notes on the backs, and the ability to replace to replace pages with new marked-up versions as more research gets done.
This also connects to a wish to digitize a book for research--the first book I purchased for the purpose of cutting the spine off, scanning & converting was in order to find out how many instances of a particular word were used in it. That was 8 years ago; it's still not available as a purchasable ebook.