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cfrizz · 05-22-2013, 08:20 PM

Don't worry about legality since if you do strip the drm no one will know about it to come after you.

Worry more about what you will do when B&N goes belly up and takes all your bought and paid for books with them.

Freeing them will solve this worry. It will also allow you to convert them into standard epubs to put on a Sony reader, or tablet or convert to Kindle books.

A whole lot of us on here saw this happen with Fictionwise, B&N bought them then trashed them so that they finally shut down last year. And although they sent out emails to their former customers that they could download their books and/or move them over to B&N it was hardly a smooth process!

You paid for those books, you should be able to keep them and put them on any device that you so choose. So google Apprentice Alf and start freeing those books!

05-22-2013, 08:20 PM	#11
cfrizz Wizard Posts: 1,574 Karma: 36389706 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Quincy, MA Device: Samsung 54A, Kobo Libra H2O, Samsung S6 Lite	Don't worry about legality since if you do strip the drm no one will know about it to come after you. Worry more about what you will do when B&N goes belly up and takes all your bought and paid for books with them. Freeing them will solve this worry. It will also allow you to convert them into standard epubs to put on a Sony reader, or tablet or convert to Kindle books. A whole lot of us on here saw this happen with Fictionwise, B&N bought them then trashed them so that they finally shut down last year. And although they sent out emails to their former customers that they could download their books and/or move them over to B&N it was hardly a smooth process! You paid for those books, you should be able to keep them and put them on any device that you so choose. So google Apprentice Alf and start freeing those books! Last edited by cfrizz; 05-22-2013 at 08:23 PM.