Opinion: Would you destroy physical book in exchange for a electronic version?

[askyn]

Here is the scenario:

This is totally hypothetical, I’m not offering to do it etc etc, just starting a discussion on it.

You "know" someone or have a friend that has an ebook version of current best seller that isn’t offered electronically, for arguments sake we say that they bought the book / scanned / formatted etc all for their use ONLY.
Would you buy a physical copy, and exchange it for a copy of the ebook version, as long as the physical copy was destroyed?

So:
1) Electronic copy was made destroying physical copy.
2) You buy physical copy to be traded for ebook version
3) The physical book is destroyed to prevent “extra” copys / in exchange for the ebook verison.

[Cpl Punishment]

Id rather have the physical copy.....

[CazMar]

I gave away a few old copies of public domain books when I got an ereader, but that is as far as I am going! My book collection is priceless (to me, at least)

[GlenBarrington]

Depends on the book. . .

[leebase]

If I have bought the book, I feel no moral dilemma procuring an ebook from the dark net of that same book.

Lee

[CallOfCth'reader]

It depends on the book, and the quality of the ebook version.

[Piper_]

I would keep both and just consider the pbook as using up one of the 6 allowed simultaneous "devices" that ebook licenses allow.

[Astrakan]

Originally Posted by leebase

If I have bought the book, I feel no moral dilemma procuring an ebook from the dark net of that same book.

Lee

That's a position I can agree with. I'd consider it on the same level as not rebuying MP3s of songs you already own on CD.

[rogerVA]

Usually "real" books are much more valuable to me than the e-books. I have the Kindle in large part for the public domain and classic titles and I still have a couple thousand BOOKS I wouldn't trade for any e-book.

[zespectre]

It's a very cool question but for me the answer is Nope, the book monkey rides me too hard.

Heck I have purchased "dead tree" and digital versions of a number of the same books. I once found myself reading the same book, in parallel, on a computer during lunches at work, as a hardcover during laundromat trips, and on an ipod touch (after the wife said "lights out") at bedtime.

[Worldwalker]

I have a visceral antipathy toward destroying any book, no matter what I get in return. I just can't do it. It's destroying a book. </shudder>

[Giggleton]

Originally Posted by Worldwalker

I have a visceral antipathy toward destroying any book, no matter what I get in return. I just can't do it. It's destroying a book. </shudder>

I don't like the eradication of knowledge potentials either. This is why I share everything that I can. Is not sharing the same as destruction though? When copying is so simple? I propose that it is. To not share your books, that is a crime against knowledge.

[grumpy3b]

Originally Posted by askyn

Here is the scenario:

This is totally hypothetical, I’m not offering to do it etc etc, just starting a discussion on it.

You "know" someone or have a friend that has an ebook version of current best seller that isn’t offered electronically, for arguments sake we say that they bought the book / scanned / formatted etc all for their use ONLY.
Would you buy a physical copy, and exchange it for a copy of the ebook version, as long as the physical copy was destroyed?

So:
1) Electronic copy was made destroying physical copy.
2) You buy physical copy to be traded for ebook version
3) The physical book is destroyed to prevent “extra” copys / in exchange for the ebook verison.

nope, I am genetically predisposed against book burning for any reason other than last ditch survival at 15,000ft and no wood or other fuel within a 10-mile hike.

[Elfwreck]

I've chopped-and-scanned books I bought for that purpose. I suppose that counts as "destroying" the physical book; it's certainly not particularly readable afterward.

I usually look on Amazon for a used copy for this--which means I pay a penny + postage, and the author & publisher receive nothing.

[Anke Wehner]

Originally Posted by Piper_

I would keep both and just consider the pbook as using up one of the 6 allowed simultaneous "devices" that ebook licenses allow.

I like that logic.

I guess if someone offered to make a (proofread) ebook from a book, which involved destroying the book, I've got a few that are in bad shape, anyway and would trade like that. Or if the author or publisher offered to give the ebook to anyone who sent in a paper copy (or a few pages thereof, or some other kind of proof of destruction).

Scanning books myself I'm too lazy to, but then, I've got a flatbed scanner, so that'd involve turning pages and aligning them by hand, not droping a sheaf of pages in and letting the scanner do its thing.