No, obviously not. But if you scanned the book, put it on archive.is and invited all the visitors to Hacker News to read it I think that might be copyright infringement. IANAL so setting the precise legality aside, in terms of economic harm (which many here have brought up regarding shoplifting), how is this different?
If I just told archive.is the title of a book, and they went to get it and scanned it in and put it on their website, they might be guilty of copyright infringement, but I don't think I would be.
