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Originally Posted by HarryT
But you can't "do whatever you want" with any book, paper books included. You own the paper and ink when you buy a paper book, but you have an extremely restricted set of rights when it comes to what you can do with the contents of the book. The same is true with ebooks, only there there's no physical medium to "own", of course, so all you're left with are the right granted by the rights-holder, just as with a paper book.
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I did not mean putting them up on torrent sites or some such, of course. I meant changing formatting, covers, making omnibus sets for my personal use, being certain I can read them on whatever device I wish (I might want to buy a non-Amazon reading device in the future). You're right that I cannot do most of these things with paper books, but at least I need not worry that I cannot suddenly read my paper books anymore because the vendor ceased to exist or became unavailable to me. I'm afraid I'm a bit of a control freak about such things.
Perhaps because the DRM-ed e-books were quite recently not available at all in my country, so I don't trust them to remain available.