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Using Calibre will shortly be illegal in Canada. Breaking DRM is outlawed in Bill C-11.
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Which means breaking DRM will be illegal (like it is many places). That has nothing to do with Calibre unless a user chooses to download 3rd party plugins from a completely unrelated source.
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A paperback is better than an ebook because you can give it away or sell it when you are done.
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For many people that's true. Other than a few rare books that went for big $$$ I've personally never sold a book and rarely given one away although I have loaned them out. For myself the convenience factors that eBooks present are a big plus and I can still load books by loaning out an old reader with the book(s) on it.
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Ebooks can also be lost when the platform dies. In the timescale of books, and given how new the platforms are, that isn't an unlikely occurrence.
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Entirley possible if you don't pay attention to things and convert older formats at the time new formats start becoming prevalent. ePub is basically just a zip file with XHTML inside (Mobi's basically HTML inside too). I doubt either HTML or ZIP (or the ability to utilize them) are going anywhere in my lifetime so I hope to have a way to read/convert my books even if ePub and Mobi were to disappear tomorrow.