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Originally Posted by Mivo
If it's just an image on every page (I agree with Helen, that would conflict with my reading experience, because at least on the Glo images in epubs briefly flash when the page is assembled), it is trivial to remove as part of a conversion.
Basically, it's as "useful" as the other forms of DRM: both methods affect only those who don't liberate their books and don't distribute them. Those who liberate or distribute books (not the same by any means), can easily ditch either method.
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The principle reason for removing DRM is to back up the books and to format shift when you get a reader that uses a different format. Watermarks allow you to do both without having to remove anything.
I have never loaned my paper books because I never seemed to get them back, and I don't loan my ebooks either since I have no way to fulfill my responsibility if I did. Until someone figures out how to manage the issue of first purchase with regard to eBooks watermarks seem to me to be the best answer to the problem I've seen yet.