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Originally Posted by Catlady
If I couldn't break DRM, I would not buy e-books.
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Honestly, I never quite got that point.
What's the reason for stripping DRM?
a.) Backup. Amazon or whatever merchant might cease business and you can't access your books anymore.
Happened to me a few times. But for one, I only buy from "the big ones" and I don't expect Amazon, Apple, Google and the likes to be gone quickly. And last but not least: Would I really care in, let's say 5 years? I have about 600 Microsoft .lit books, I bought from 2000 to maybe 2004. I did strip them from DRM and I even did convert them via calibre. But I never used them. The few I still want to have, I simply re-bought from Amazon and others. After all: Reading is an extremely cheap hobby (1 Euro per hour or something like that, compare to 10 times the amount for cinema for example).
b.) Read them on other units. Why? Why buy from Amazon and read on, let's say Nook? Okay, maybe Amazon is 10% cheaper. But is this worth the effort?
c.) Be future-proof. Lots of formats probably will disappear. Is there a way, I till could read my Microsoft .lit books? I admit, I keep my paper books for years and even decades on the shelf. But that's only because it's hard to let go off physical products. Would it really be so tragic, to loose ebooks one bought 10 years ago? And how likely is it really?
d.) Because some store might pull your library? I've heard those stories, but I don't know a single case personally. Why should this happen, if I stick to the general terms and conditions?
When I did it, until maybe 4 years ago, I only did it being a collector.
I liked fumbling around with my library, switching covers, correcting flaws (author's name all in capital letters and such nonsense). But I simply don't find this important enough anymore, to spend time on it. In the time it takes to perfectly tune an ebook, that cost 10 Euros and less, one actually spends more money (time =money) than one ever might save.