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Originally Posted by HarryT
Katsunami, I'm curious to know why you thought that people wouldn't read books that had DRM. Most of us here are avid readers, and I imagine would carry on reading under pretty much any circumstances, DRM or no.
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Maybe the reason is just that I detest, abhor and loath DRM in such an extreme way that I can't believe anyone accepting it.
I only accept it if buying a product that I don't care one whit about losing: an example are the games or apps on my tablet. I've paid between $0.1 and $2 for them, but if I'd ever lose them, I wouldn't care for a second.
Games on a smartphone are for short-lived entertainment, for example if I have to wait and have nothing else to do.
Now I realize that some people think the same about their books: read it, and throw it away. If you're such a reader, then I can understand that you don't care about DRM. Probably, these are also people who use the library a lot.
I, on the other hand, can't throw away books; if I don't need them anymore, I'll sell them, or give them away, but I'll never throw them in the garbage. I actually MUST have the book; I'm a re-reader. I hate it that I've already forgot quite some details from the books I read this year. Probably, I'll start rereading all of my books again after a few years.
The only books I can throw away are useless ones, such as computer books written in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. There is no use in keeping a book on learning Borland C++ or Pascal, based on a compiler from 1987, or a book on how to manage Windows NT 3.1.