I agree with your original assertion-- buying a copy of the book does not validate downloading someone else's digitization of the same material (and I'd have to assume that ORA books found illegitimately online are not simple OCR scans of someone's real world book, but copies of the digital editions-- not something owning the book gives you any license to, or they'd include it on a CD with each book purchase).

But I must assert that if I buy a book, video, CD, or any other item of that nature, I have every right to create "backups", digitized copies, what-have-you, for my own personal use. Personally, I think I'd rather pay for a legitimate digital version of any ORA book in question, as OCR'ing something like the Camel would take days, and probably result in a poor digital text (even if it gets all the characters right, it's still a flat text file, not my idea of useful).

In reply to (ichimunki) re: copying books by ichimunki
in thread Perl Function List On Palm with avantgo by Anonymous Monk

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