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Originally Posted by Katsunami
...Stripping DRM takes no time at all. You sprinkle some Alf into your PC, and after downloading your book(s) into Kindle for PC or ADE, you import them into Calibre.
*poof*, DRM gone.
Converting to a different format takes a few mouse clicks and you're done.
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Maybe if you do it consequently every day. I buy maybe 1.000 ebooks per year. If I only would do it, let's assume, twice per month, it's quite time consuming. I have to check, where I bought my books. For now, this might be Apple iBooks, Google Play, Amazon, B&N, Kobo. I have to download them, for some I even would have to install ADE and the likes (yikes!). I have to strip them from DRM, port them to calibre. And then, nitpicky as I am, I would spend a few minutes on tuning it. If I touch it already, I would want to do it right. Correct inconstancies in author's name and the likes. How much time is it then? 3 minutes per book? 15 to 30 minutes per day? Or a few hours every month?
Even at the lowest hourly rate, that's quite a lot of money spent for backup and such.
(I always calculate each activity against what I could earn in the same amount of time. My sister in law for example drives 30 minutes to another retailer, to save some bucks on her purchase. Considering gas and even more so the time she spents, she actually looses money).