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latepaul · 12-13-2013, 01:14 PM

I only made the final decision to buy a Kindle when I'd checked it was possible to deDRM the ebooks. I was/am willing to pay for ebooks but wanted to be able to back them up and future-proof them against format changes.

At the time I bought (a Kindle 2i in 2009) it was still a relatively expensive device and ebooks were the same price as hardbacks or more. At those prices I would not have bought the device just to read public domain works. By the time the prices came down to what we have today then I probably would. I would probably also have bought some of the "unbreakable" DRMed ebooks and then acquired a matching OCR-ed copy.

12-13-2013, 01:14 PM	#30
latepaul Wizard Posts: 1,270 Karma: 10468300 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: a variety (mostly kindles and kobos)	I only made the final decision to buy a Kindle when I'd checked it was possible to deDRM the ebooks. I was/am willing to pay for ebooks but wanted to be able to back them up and future-proof them against format changes. At the time I bought (a Kindle 2i in 2009) it was still a relatively expensive device and ebooks were the same price as hardbacks or more. At those prices I would not have bought the device just to read public domain works. By the time the prices came down to what we have today then I probably would. I would probably also have bought some of the "unbreakable" DRMed ebooks and then acquired a matching OCR-ed copy.