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Originally Posted by rixte
I don't think that there's any reason to believe most sideloaders are pirates, however.
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I really hope so.
I've bought all of my books legally (or downloaded free ones legally), and I sideload everything. I actually have to, most of the time, as I prefer EPUB as my base format, while my primary e-reader is a Kindle. Therefore I have to remove DRM and then sideload before I can read.
Additionally, I don't want to be dependent on any manufacturer's cloud to be able to retrieve my books, and just as Harry, I bought books at many places, such as ebooks.com, BooksOnBoard, Diesel-Ebooks, Kobo, Feedbooks and Amazon. Some of those stores don't even exist anymore, but because I removed DRM and put the books into Calibre, I still have access to them. (They are also in a folder called "Originals", which contains all originals without DRM, but untouched by any edits in Calibre; not even any metadata is corrected.)
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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
I always worried about what happens if I lose an ereader or it's stolen, and anyone can then buy up hundreds of books before I realized it was gone since the reader stays logged in.
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Good point. First, my reader only contains 3-10 unread books only (my current series, and one or two extra, maybe a few standalone books), and second, I normally keep it logged out.
Actually, I have to check that. Can a Kindle be registered, but NOT logged in to Amazon, or do I need to unregister it? Durned. Now I have to turn Wifi on to check, which will make the reader download books that I will have to remove afterward.