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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
I understand that no works will be entering the PD in the US before 2019, so a few years off still. Are you confident you'll be able to read your current set of ebooks in 2021, DRM or no DRM?
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I am, but then I'm enough of a geek to do things like convert my entire Calibre library to a new format if I think there's any chance that I won't be able to read them otherwise.
If your books are in something like HTML or ePub then there's a very good chance you'll still be able to read it - HTML is text with formatting markers, and ePub is zipped HTML. If I thought there was no other way of preserving them, I'd convert them all to plain text.
Of course, that's not necessarily true for most people, but I certainly expect to be able to read my current set of ebooks in 10 years.