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Old 09-25-2011, 06:35 AM   #66
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Originally Posted by Pinecone View Post
Of course, if Amazon went out of business, and your Kindle broke, you couldn't read your books unless you had them on you computer and a copy of K4PC.
And then some part of your computer breaks, and your new installation of Kindle on your computer won't read the books you'd carefully backed up...

The only sensible course of action for ebooks, if you want to retain access to them, is to only buy non-DRM ebooks, or to strip the DRM immediately after buying them.
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