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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I actually make it a point to immediately locally capture, de-drm, and backup anything digital that I buy, be it books, movies, music, or games, in default formats as much as possible. If I can't, because of unbreakable drm, or for example needing an always on internet connection, then I'll not buy it.
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This is excellent advice, and is also my practice. Although like many others I began my e-book buying with Amazon and the Kindle, I've since de-DRM'd all of my Kindle books (thank you, Alf), converted them to epub, and stored them in multiple locations both locally and offsite. Now I buy from multiple stores, in epub where possible, and de-DRM them when necessary. And I never buy anything with unbreakable DRM (as with Apple's iBooks).
The wisdom of this practice was made clear to me recently when the "Archive" view on my Kindle Fire failed to turn up a few books that I had purchased back in 2008. They showed up when I logged into the Amazon website on my computer, but who wants to go through that hassle? It was a lot faster and easier to go to my Dropbox backup from the Fire, download the book and open it in Aldiko. So much for the Amazon advantage...