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I've never quite understood the buy-it-once-and-keep-it-forever mindset when it cones to books. Even back when I used to re-read a lot more than I do now, I didn't mind buying new copies of favorite books. I wore many of them out; lost others; loaned them out and never got them back; bought extra copies to give as gifts; bought the movie tie-in editions--what-have-you.
I feel the same way about ebooks. If, in five or six (or ten) years, an ebook I want to re-read is unavailable (lost, DRM-stranded because a book store went bust--whatever), I won't mind giving a little more money to an author I like to replace it (or I'll get it from a library).
The only reason I remove DRM these days is if the formatting is so atrocious that I need to fix it to read it comfortably (rare).
I value the experience of reading a great book way more than what they're charging for new ones (e or p). *shrug*
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