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Originally Posted by Josieb1
I liberate all my books, and do so immediately I purchase them. After what I've been through with Amazon I feel I have every right.
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I do the same thing although I don't claim it as a right. It's against Amazon's terms of service, which I agreed to, abdicating any such rights. I do it anyway because I am going to protect myself. I don't really feel a need to justify that.
Years ago, long before the Kindle and the Nook, Barnes and Noble sold ebooks along with readers that worked in Windows. Or maybe it worked in Dos. I don't really remember. This began shortly after Microsoft and it's ereader and the .lit books, or maybe shortly before, I'm not sure. They sold those books for three years as I recall. I bought a few and I read them but I do re-read books and I hung on to them.
Then they decided to get out of the ebook business and we were all notified that we had 30 days to download our books and then they'd be gone. The reader, needed to read them, was already gone. I wasn't worried. I had mine downloaded and my reader installed and I just never thought it through.
When I replaced my PC with a newer one my books were, of course, gone. I can't feel too bad about this. I had read them and I didn't have that many. Maybe a dozen or two. I don't remember now. I didn't feel real good about it either and I learned my lesson.
When I sign up with any online book seller I have to agree with their terms of service but they don't have to agree to my terms of service. They enforce their terms to the best of their ability and I do the same with my terms.
Amazon and every other book seller says we're not really buying the book, we're buying the right to read it. That, to me, is a distinction without a difference and not one I can respect. I will buy and pay for the books I read but I will get those books.
Barry