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A much better plan is to not rent protected books at all. If you want to buy books you must either buy unprotected books or own the protection system (impractical for most of us). The third option is to buy effectively unprotected books that you can remove the protection from. One approach to the latter that I haven't seen for that (yet) is using an e-ink device and a camera with OCR software but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
Currently of the $500-ish I've spent on ebooks all has gone into books that I now own copies of, rather than to books that I can only access at the pleasure of the owner. the MS lit format is excellent for that, it seems to count as DRM for publishers but it's trivial to remove for consumers.
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