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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Right now I am actually creating an e-book of another such older 'orphan' title. Believe me buy the time I am done accounting for the hours spent in scanning, proofing, and formatting into an epub file I could have purchased well over a hundred e-books at current prices. So I am not doing it for financial purposes. Even this is a gray area to me even though I purchased a used paperback for the scanning – paying a bit extra to get it in large print; really helps with the scanning/OCR don't you know-I don't have permission from the copyright holder. I justify it to myself by the fact that I don't see how I have cost the author any sales or revenue.
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Not to worry, if you are in the States. Perfectly legal. You are just format shifting.
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I will even admit that having put so much effort into the task that the thought of sharing the result, for free of course, has occurred to me. Oh, my god I can't believe I am even thinking that. I won't though because I do believe in intellectual property rights.
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I wouldn't have any problem, myself, giving a copy to members of my family. But anyone else - let them scan their own. Had I not found a darknet copy of the Book I'm reading, I'd have scanned it.