Sunder wrote:

To add to this:

There is no law stating that I cannot take my books and read them backwards, skip every other word, read the odd chapters in reverse and the even chapters forward, or try to "decode" the book by translating it to another language, ask someone with better eyes than mine to read it to me, or chose to wear green tinted lenses while reading it, read it to kids or the elderly, lend it - or rent it to friends, use it as a paperweight, ^^^^^^^ this, I believe, there are laws about. At least here.

drop it on the floor, et cetera. I can take it with me to other countries and read it there, as well etc. Once I bought it, it's mine.

Again, only within the permitted uses. For example, copying it and selling copies is clearly not permitted. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff