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Originally Posted by oldyellr
Calibre does not break DRM at all. That can only be done with an undocumented third party add-on that you have to find and install. That would be like Making Firefox illegal because it enables you to get to pirate websites.
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Sorry, I've never used Calibre. I've just seen people mention using it to strip DRM.
On a forum, I've seen bragging about stripping DRM from a Toronto Public Library ebook, using Calibre, so that the book could be "borrowed" indefinitely.
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But you're right about changing platforms. I guess I'll have to throw out all the books I have on 5-1/4" floppy disks. 
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Surely those books have no DRM so they should be easy to move forward.
I, for example, own a copy of the Encyclopaedia Britanica on CD. It does have its own kind-of DRM so it is now useless to me.
Any platform (note: I didn't say medium) with DRM is very likely hard to migrate from without breaking DRM. For example, converting DRMed mobi books to DRMed epub books is unlikely to happen unless it is done by the publisher.