Guys, I am rapturously in love with my iPad as an e-reader. I have lotsa LOTSA books, mostly paperpack, that I have loved and occasionally re-read. I can't buy e-copies of stuff like Griffin's The Brotherhood of War, for example. In some cases, the e-reader version of a book is more expensive than a paperback copy. Sooooooo....
I'm thinking about disassembling the books, essentially destroying them, in order to scan them into a PDF or some other e-reader format, for my own use. Since I own (and will destroy) the dead-tree edition, am I courting legal trouble with the copyright laws? (groan).
I have some experience, decades old, operating a massive paper cutter that would slice off the spine of a paperback book easily. It would then be a straightfoward process to feed the loose pages thru a fairly heavy-duty scanner. Well, that's my first plan, anyway.
Opinions?
