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This forum is kind of a bubble. If you read the posts here, you take it for granted that most folks are familiar with DRM, Darknet, Calibre, Apprentice Alf, etc., etc, and that it is MOST IMPORTANT that people should be able to backup/archive their books according to some particular scheme, transfer eBooks between devices, share ebooks with any and everyone, etc, etc.
In reality, all most people want to do is to be able to buy, download, read and store ebooks on their device, which they probably won't upgrade or change till it breaks , years from now. That is the extent of what they want from their eBook reader.
If they are reading on a tablet or smartphone, talk of "walled gardens" vanishes into irrelevance , since they can shop and read from almost any store.
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