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Originally Posted by HarryT
It just goes to reinforce what I've been saying for years: that you CAN'T rely on a bookstore to keep your books for you. Download and store safely the INSTANT you buy.
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Originally Posted by John F
And by "store safely" you mean strip the DRM (if it has any)?  |
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, exactly.
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When I bought (and then sold) my first e-reader in 2007, I only read some free books. (And some illegal ones too, scanned/OCR'd versions, as no official ones were available at that time...) Then I went back to paper, disillusioned with availability and quality of both legal and illegal options.
In 2010, there was an e-book boom, making every title I ever wanted available, Calibre had matured greatly, and there was a way to remove DRM. When the Touch appeared, I got an e-reader again. It only got better and better since then.
If DRM could not be removed, I would not have restarted e-reading again, and because of this, I'm getting and buying every book I think I'd like to read someday in the next 50 years, as I can strip DRM and use the book in any way I want to. B&N, with removing download options, and Kindle Unlimited are already pointing to where e-reading is going to go: streaming. As with movies and games, I would only accept that for one-time use products, not for products I want to own.