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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I would buy it used in paper, chop the binding and run it through a scanner to read as image-only PDF before I'd deal with DRM.
I have done this.
If a used/destructible copy weren't available, I'd cope with finding paper & reading that. (But "chop and scan" is ahead of "read pbook" in my preferences.) There is no book I need to read so much that it's worth putting up with DRM.
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Ditto (sort of). Buying DRM'd content is supporting DRM with my dollars - my vote. No way.
I might put up with DRM for $1 or free on an ebook (not that I have...almost all of mine have been free); about $5-$6 on an Xbox live arcade game or PC game. I'll tolerate Steam DRM on PC for under $10.
That's it. Even a $1 DRM'd ebook is annoying because I'm going to have to spend 20 minutes or so stripping the DRM...and I haven't even re-installed all of the tools I need to break it since I replaced my laptop HDD with an SSD - more annoyance.
I won't chop and scan. I instead buy a paperback or hardcover version and download the ebook from what mobileread seems to call "the darknet" (boogety boo!).
If I know I like the books (the case for Elizabeth Haydon's Symphony of the Ages series...after I read book one in paperback)...I buy the hardcovers. Even a first edition hardcover is frequently cheaper shipped than a full MSRP ebook from one of the agencies.
I ended up paying $12 a pop for a few of Haydon's 1st edition hardcovers at a used bookstore. I wasn't paying $8 for DRM'd ebooks instead.
My biggest dilemma is paperbacks. Stuff that I want to read but not enough to buy a hardcover. I vastly prefer ebooks to paperbacks (paperbacks are annoying to read on a flat surface while eating, cooking in the kitchen, etc). I generally just end up buying neither...
EDIT:
I did buy a couple of ebooks for history classes and strip the DRM. In that case it was a matter of either being far cheaper than the paperback and having no resale value, or that I needed it ASAP. The last one for a class I bought was ~$5 for the ebook and ~$16 for the paperback with a $2 resale value. But I HAD to buy that, and needed it quickly. If I had a choice I'd have bought neither.