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Originally Posted by sirmaru
By the way, all this DRM removal going on now to store eBooks for future use may be for naught. New eReaders may be introduced at some time which will make all the old eBook files OBSOLETE since the structure of the new eBooks may be totally different.
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An unencrypted file can be converted from the format that has fallen out of favor into whatever format is currently in vogue. An encrypted file is lost to you once the ebook format it uses falls out of favor and your old device dies or is no longer appealing to use. This has happened enough times over the last 10 years to make it clear that this is not just a long-term concern, but may have rather short-term implications:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital...t#Obsolescence.