In USA there are format shifting rights in the Fair Use doctrine I gather. So one could buy the book and scan it and create an ebook, as this is logically equivalent to getting a copy from a torrenting site but is far less economical and wastes more resources it seems the moral thing to do is buy the paperback and send it for pulping and download a copy of the ebook?

The author gets paid, the publisher gets paid, you get the copy you want with less resource waste than scanning it for yourself.

Anyone have a moral objection to that they'd care to elucidate.