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Originally Posted by Gideon
The copies you buy are in a proprietary, DRM'd format... and all it takes is them to no longer support it for you to lose your library.
A few years ago, I bought a PDF book from Amazon. Then, a bit ago I tried to open the file to find out that Amazon was no longer authorizing these and upon contacting Amazon was told, more or less, that I was SOL. I bought it, paid for it.... and then couldn't use it at all, with no recourse, because Amazon decided to quit selling those types of eBooks.
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Simply put, I do not buy DRMed books. As far as I am concerned this cathegory of books do not exist.
I don't care that *.lit is more expensive, because in a long run it is cheaper - I will not have to re-purchase the book in the future.
After I bought PRS-500 I got rid of all paper back books that I had (local charity shop - Oxfam). I am planning to get rid of some of my hard back editions(such as Terry Brooks and Terry Goodkind) in the future as well. Maybe I will try to sell them via amazon market.
I am still buying hard back editions of books that belong to series I have strated to collect long time ago, however, I do not purchase any new series. I will get them in ebook format when I decide to read them.