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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I've read of some people keeping an older unused Kindle registered to their account just so they can use the USB download function without having to worry about KFX sometime in the future.
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That's basically what I do. I still have my original K1 (so yes, there are two of us apparently).
I have to agree with others here. Why worry about things you can't control? I have only bought a couple of books from Apple (the first just to give it a try, and second was the new enhanced Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone just to see what it is like) simply because I can't format switch those books. I buy the vast majority of my books from Amazon or Baen, remove the DRM if there is any (not all Amazon books have DRM) and then format switch them to epub and read on Marvin. I have all my books in multiple locations, so it's pretty unlikely that I'm going to lose them.
IMPO, the odds are pretty high that any format that Amazon comes out with will be cracked fairly quickly if it becomes necessary. The big thing to keep in mind is that it's the publishers who put DRM on books, not the book stores. Neither Tor nor Baen use DRM for their books. Eventually, I suspect, like the music industry, the book industry will move to dropping DRM as more and more authors and publishers see that DRM doens't really solve anything. Amazon is in the business of selling ebooks. I will be very surprised if they do something that causes customers not to be able to buy an ebook on an older device.