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Originally Posted by MidnightBlue
I suppose that if I had to change eReaders and I had some unread books on my old one it might be a problem, but I am happy with my Kindle and if something happened to it I would just buy another one. As for all the books that I had bought and already read, I would hardly need to have those in a new format. I think that DRM is an issue for a very small number of people, probably most of them geeks.
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Some people won't buy a new Kindle if the old one dies. That's because of the line height bug in the KF8/AZW3 part of the firmware. So they either lose the eBooks they've bought or they can strip the DRM and convert.
I would hate to be locked into a given brand of reader just because of DRM. I want choices and removing the DRM gives me choices. Also, going ePub gives me more choices without having to format shift as almost all readers support ePub except Amazon.