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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

1. Leave the country, lose your ebooks
2. Anger Amazon, lose your ebooks
3. Own too many devices, lose your ebooks
4. Switch to a different book store, lose your ebooks
5. Bookstore shuts down, lose your ebooks

There are more reasons to de-DRM books. My main ones are

• the poor quality of ebooks: too many books I bought had no TOC, or worse, terrible conception, which means I had to learn a minimum of coding, and thank god there is Calibre and its plugins to correct my tentative Sigil adjustments; I had books all italics, or all bold for instance, and once a Penguin that was so slow turning pages that I gave up reading it
• the unavailability of books I was looking for in the standard epub format;
• the erratic pricing: I learned that it is best to shop around, since usually amazon is the highest priced but sometimes the lowest; and even for epubs, some sites add 20% VAT on the VAT included price set by editors, and applied by other sites;
• and finally, I like to be able to add my metadatas, choose margins, type, etc., and cancel the publicity at the end of the book