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Stevex · 11-26-2017, 09:24 AM

The point i was making was nothing to do with drm (as such) or epub being 'better'
Amazon are basically converting reading to a streaming service, where the content ison their servers and they stream the presentation to the device
Even today I guess the vast majority of kindle users do not bother with offline copies, their books are on Amazon servers available on demand.
I do keep my Calibre libraries in the cloud as well but I also keep multiple offline backups.
Can you be sure Amazon will still exist in 20 years? That your home territory and Amazon will be under compatible legal systems. Etc etc. A lot can happen in 2 or 3 decades and even if it's only a one in a thousand chance that's still one too many for me.

11-26-2017, 09:24 AM	#128
Stevex Addict Posts: 225 Karma: 15318 Join Date: Nov 2015 Device: Kobo Glo HD	The point i was making was nothing to do with drm (as such) or epub being 'better' Amazon are basically converting reading to a streaming service, where the content ison their servers and they stream the presentation to the device Even today I guess the vast majority of kindle users do not bother with offline copies, their books are on Amazon servers available on demand. I do keep my Calibre libraries in the cloud as well but I also keep multiple offline backups. Can you be sure Amazon will still exist in 20 years? That your home territory and Amazon will be under compatible legal systems. Etc etc. A lot can happen in 2 or 3 decades and even if it's only a one in a thousand chance that's still one too many for me. Last edited by Stevex; 11-26-2017 at 09:26 AM.