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Originally Posted by pdurrant
You also claim that DRM-removal leads to the pirating of books. If that was so, then the available pirate books for download would already contain all the metadata.
No-one downloading pirated material needs Alf's tools, as they only work for the people who actually bought the books. And as stated before, IF pirated ebooks were from commercial ebooks with the DRM removed, they would still contain all their metadata.
Pirated ebooks with DRM still on them are useless to the the people downloading them. No-one needs calibre to add metadata to pirated ebooks, because pirated ebooks would still have all their metadata present.
This all has nothing to do with piracy of ebooks, or needing to add metatdata to pirated ebooks.
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By definition pirate eBook sites are NOT standard. Metadata may or may not be complete on uploads and DRM may or may not have been included on uploads.
Thus, anyone collecting thousands of eBooks from pirate site downloads has a strong need to bring all those eBooks into Calibre to organize and complete the metadata on them. They also need Alf since many of the downloaded eBooks may still have DRM on them.
If one is going to upload to pirate sites, again Calibre and Alf are necessities for those sites which require metadata to be complete and Alf to remove the DRM.
Music pirate sites used to REQUIRE that one upload an equivalent number of songs as the number they want to download. It is probable that many eBook pirate sites now have the same requirement.
Those folks with 10,000 or more eBooks have probably acquired most from pirate sites or other free sites. With the average price of an eBook now at $ 10.00, I doubt if anyone actually spent $ 100,000 on eBooks for future reading.
The only way I would need Calibre and Alf would be if it looked like Amazon was going out of business and being replaced by yet another standard with a new eBook distributor. I would then need to convert the current eBooks I was reading to the new eReaders and new eBook standards.
When I moved from Sony eReaders to Amazon eReaders, I kept the old Sony eReaders to first finish the old eBooks at the same time as I was buying new eBooks from Amazon.
As long as Amazon stays strong, I don't need to waste my time with Calibre or Alf. I have long ago accepted the fact that my old Adobe and Sony eBook files are gone forever. Since I never re-read an old eBook, I do not need access to them. The only risk is that I may have forgotten lots of books I have read in the past and then accidently buy them again from Amazon and re-read them.