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Old 10-15-2018, 07:17 PM   #46
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
You should be liberating you Kindle eBooks NOW and not waiting. If something was to change whereby you were no longer able to remove the DRM, all those eBooks would be screwed. So do it now and keep DRM free copies. There are plenty of people who have lost eBooks thinking I can download them later from the eBookstore and then the store goes away and the eBooks get lost. So don't wait. Do it now.
The end is nigh!
I actually agree.

Back in the PDA era, that is what I would do.
Saved me a lot of grief when MS Reader folded.

I never bought a mobi ebook until Mobi DeDrm came out. I ignored Kindle until it was cracked. I don't trust to the kindness of multinationals.

Amazon isn't likely to kill their golden egg goose by hardening the DRM completely but just because it isn't likely today doesn't mean they won't at some point in the next century.

Best practice is to buy, strip DRM, and archive the disinfected copy.
Belt and suspenders kind of thing, making sure you protect against the one in a zillion improbability.

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