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nekokami · 12-03-2007, 07:35 AM

I'd digitize all my books if I could find time to do it. As it is, most of them are packed in boxes because I don't have room to shelve them in our current house. I re-read a lot, so I find this extremely inconvenient.

There are mixed feelings on this forum (and elsewhere) on the legality or morality of acquiring digitizations from someone else for books one owns in paper, but that is a possibility in many cases.

For most of my collection, no legal ebook versions exist, so that route is not an option, even if I could afford to repurchase all my books (which I can't).

12-03-2007, 07:35 AM	#9
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	I'd digitize all my books if I could find time to do it. As it is, most of them are packed in boxes because I don't have room to shelve them in our current house. I re-read a lot, so I find this extremely inconvenient. There are mixed feelings on this forum (and elsewhere) on the legality or morality of acquiring digitizations from someone else for books one owns in paper, but that is a possibility in many cases. For most of my collection, no legal ebook versions exist, so that route is not an option, even if I could afford to repurchase all my books (which I can't).