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Originally Posted by mgmueller
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 day 5 years? I have about 600 Microsoft .lit books, I bought from 200 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, Is 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?
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So i can read my books everywhere (Linux included)
I can edit them, backup them, they are mine to do whatever I want.
And adept messed with me a few times already. No drm means that things "just works".
Where DRM unbreakable, the presence or absence would be a criteria to buy this or that book.
Tragic is not the right word, annoying and stupid when the simple absence of DRM can avoid this, definitively.