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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Actually, it was me who said that...
And the first thing I did with the Harry Potter books was comment out the UUID-style visible watermark and replace it with my name.
There are many people who would pay good money for ebooks with a dedication/author signature rather than the ugly watermark HP uses.
Furthermore, if you don't like the watermark because it was visibly ugly I don't blame you -- but do note, it is still watermarked; the HP watermark is many-tentacled like an octopus, and pervades most aspects of the code. CSS and filenames are the first things you see when you open it in the editor, and there are oh-so-many-ways to hide information in images, and those are just the ways I thought of off the top of my head.
Congratulations, you are every vendor's favorite customer -- one too naïve or halfhearted to do anything but fall for the distraction.
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Yup, maybe if it was done in a nicer way. Still, it's not the book as it should be. In the same way, I tends to remove "ads" pages, fix formatting and so on. I want no mess in my books.
A watermark that isn't visible would annoy me less. Because i wouldn't see it when reading.