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Originally Posted by darryl
Both DiapDealer and Katsunami seem to have considered their options carefully and reached the solution best suited to them. Personally my view accords with Katsunami's, for various reasons relating to myself and my own reading habits. There is no right or wrong answer to this one. We will each do what we believe suits us.
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Of course there isn't a right or wrong.
With regard to books in the future (ones that haven't been released yet, or I don't own at this time), I will see what happens. The reason why I built as large a library as I could as soon as possible has been because of the threat of DRM being re-instated when retailers switch over to ADE 3.x or later. This might take some years yet, because of the millions or even hundreds of millions of e-readers in existence that cannot use these books, but in another 5 years, retailers may think them insignificant. (Assuming all newer readers released after ADE 3.x can use books delivered to that program.) I'm not a fan of KFX either, because it's an obfusticated format that is not (yet) well supported.
I'll see how it pans out, but if it turns out that, in another 5-10 years I can only read e-books through a subscription or buy them with unbreakable DRM, I won't ever buy an e-book again. (I possibly won't buy a book ever again in my entire life, paper or digital.)
Remember how I've been screaming for 5 years that streaming books are coming? Look at Kindle Unlimited, Scribd, the Kobo service, several competing services in the Netherlands for Dutch books... and many of them only work on phones and tablets, with proprietary format, for which you need to pay month after month to keep reading. I don't do this with music or games so I won't with books. The only exception would be movies, because they can be consumed in such a short time span (generally 1.5-2 hours), so I can watch a lot of them for the money. I don't read 10 books a month, but I can see 10 or even 20 movies a month.