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Originally Posted by stonetools
Yet you (and im sure , most people on the forum) still lock your doors. Again, locks WILL stop the casual amatuer. A burglar with a lock pick can easily pick a lock, but then he is a professional-a person who has acquired the special tool and training to break in that way.
Again I think folks on this forum really lose sight of how unaffectedthe average user is by this stuff. Grandma who just bought a Kindle understands that she can buy books in seconds from Amazon. She's perfectly happy with that and does not know- or even want to know-about sideloading, backing your library up to a computer, transferring ebooks between devices, Calibre, etc, etc.
That's a big part of discussions by experts-the ONLY people who are really concerned about DRM
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Ummm...I am neither a Grandma (though, I suppose, at 38, that would be mathematically possible). I'm not exactly a techie, either but I'm familiar with using my iPod and iTunes and, after getting my Kobo, was able to get eBooks from Gutenberg, Smashwords, Borders, and one on loan from my library pretty easily using ADE.
I don't know how to strip DRM or find pirated eBooks and I don't WANT to know how to do that and will not. However, I did run into a problem with B&N and DRM which may be a fairly inexpensive $8 lesson about buying an eBook from them I won't be able to read on my Kobo, because of DRM.