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Originally Posted by Pinecone
Which is why you should back up your purchases on your computer. And then back up the computer.
DRM does not stop you from doing this.
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Yes, it does. A backup
must be able to be restored to a different physical machine to be a valid backup. Otherwise, there's no point. If my house burns down, or I'm caught by hurricane, or earthquake or
whatever, I need to be able to restore my systems and files and use them. A backup that is only usable on the original device is not useful, and is only giving you a false sense of security.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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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HERE! HERE!
