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Originally Posted by lebleaux
An interesting discussion. I don't know what is 'right', but I know what I want to do.
When I have read a physical book I put it on the bookshelf. If another member of my family wants to read it they take it off the shelf and do so. I want to do this with electronic books, have a library stored on the family media server and have those that want to read a book load it onto the reader of their choice. I have a Kindle, my daughter has a Nook, I expect my other daughter will soon have a Kobo, we have a laptop or two in the house etc etc. In order to achieve this I have standardized on a neutral content - epub - and create reader specific versions as required - typically via Calibre. It appears that the current intent of DRM is that I can not/should not do this, I should buy individual versions for each reader. This makes no sense and I will not do it. DRM will drive me to the torrent world OR (in my case anyway) hopefully everyone will support epub.
Yes I am aware that I want to do something that could not be done with physical books and have more than one person reading a 'single' book at once - of course I want to do this, thats why I have invested in digital content, so I can do this and other things like it. What I want is for the publishers to come to me - I am a movin' on.
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I guess I am a lot older than most of you because I can still remember the family gathering while we took turns reading out loud from a book. I assume the publishers were upset with this practice, they wanted us all to have our own copies so we could follow along.
I consider restricting a book to the point of losing function a theft on the part of the publishers. Why are they surprised when some people steal from what they perceive to be a thief? My latest flap is not being able to print a recipe from a cookbook to use in the kitchen. It seems I exceeded the clipping allotment with one clip, and no it was not a significant percentage of the book.