All good points. But this is now a significant barrier to just casually checking out a book. The OP was fretting about ordering the book on Amazon because they

All good points. But this is now a significant barrier to just casually checking out a book. The OP was fretting about ordering the book on Amazon because they "can't start reading it for a few days". Suggesting he get the book via interlibrary loan and then OCR'ing it themself would surely take longer than Amazon delivering it. And then I still maintain that distributing it illegally over Pirate Bay is risky. Yes, you can take a few good security steps. But all they'd need is the public library assistant to notice you are uploading to Pirate Bay or something. Yes you can take steps, but this is already way beyond a casual look through the book.