If I legally purchased a PDF book, is it legal for me to make multiple digital copies and store them away for archival purposes? I am not distributing them or using them for any commercial purposes.
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Assuming you are in United States, yeppers, according to federal law you are able backup files you have purchased under the "fair use" concept. You are allowed to make copies for "archival purposes".
Like other people have said other places though, you should only be using one version of the material at a time.
Calibre basically does this every time you "add a book" to your library (it actually creates a new file, not move the original one).
This is not legal advice though, and would recommend looking up some more info here: https://www.copyright.gov/
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