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Originally Posted by HarryT
The best way to "future proof" your books is to remove the DRM as soon as you buy them.
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I'm with Harry on this. Buy the READER for the features it has, and remove the DRM when you buy a book. Conversion between formats is a non-issue, once DRM is out of the way. (and the likelihood of Amazon going out of business any time soon is small. )
I buy books from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Baen, and others. I borrow books from my Provincial Library. The FIRST thing I do is clean them up, then import into Calibre, where I update metadata, etc. to give me an easy to use database of all my books. The Calibre database is backed up regularly, and I am completely confident that I could recover all my books if I ever change readers, or lose the whole house in a fire. DRM is an annoyance, but a minor one. Get the reader you like the feel of, the look of, and that has the features you want. For me, that choice was easy - I have a Kindle 3 3G, and my wife has a Kindle 3 WiFi, and we've given our old Kindle 2's to friends' children.