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Old 12-17-2010, 10:21 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by abookreader
Unless something has changed recently that I am not aware of - If the only copy of an eBook you have is one DRM'd for a Kindle with a firmware 2.5 or higher and the books are no longer available to you to re-download from the archives, as of right now you would not be able to strip the DRM.
This is absolutely correct.

I'm not advocating DRM removal (nor am I condemning it), but backing up your ebooks with the attitude that "I can always remove the DRM later" is not the way to go. If you have any intention of removing DRM (at any time), you should do it immediately rather than later. Things change.

Backing up the files (the actual files from the device itself) will only protect you from losing a book that was removed from your Amazon archive. If your Kindle breaks (and you didn't remove the DRM from your books), that backup you have won't help you a bit in putting the files back on your new Kindle. You'd still be stuck with relying on Amazon's archive to get your old books on your new Kindle.
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