>> The copyright holder cannot stop me from wallpapering my house
>> with pages from his/her book and then allowing everbody who visits
>> my house to read the book.

> I am not so sure.  I quote from a book:

>    Except in the Unites States of America, this book is sold subject
>    to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise,
>    be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the
>    publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other
>    than that in which it is published and without a similar condition
>    including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

> Of course, this might not be legally binding.