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by kstrauser 805 days ago
Stealing: absolutely not.

Legally OK: depends on jurisdiction, I imagine.

Morally OK: 100% of the time, as long as the ebook is identical to the physical one other than its format. That is, if you could scan and OCR the physical book and end up with the same result as the ebook, yes. If the ebook comes with extra content that you would not have access to without buying it in that format, I would say that's not OK. (Table of contents and indexes that link directly to a page rather than just listing its page number don't count in my opinion. Those are just the electronic equivalents of the paper indexing system.)