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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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).
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Most of the books I buy on Amazon are hard to find or not available in paper. If the small publishers who sell them go out of business, they may not be available in five to ten years. Most of the books I buy are not novels or genre fiction (I usually just borrow those from the library). Most of my paid for books are for reference. I do have fiction books I don't want to lose,
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, and a few others that I've bought from different sources. I don't see why I should re-buy these in ten years if the DRM goes AWOL or the seller's site has some kind of online glitch. It just makes more sense to save them in Calibre -- besides, I bought
The Hobbit from Amazon and
The Lord of the Rings from Barnes & Noble (because I felt sorry for them). With Calibre I'm (at last) able to join them on the same devices and reset the fonts to match. And it really doesn't take much time or effort.