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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Rules are made to be broken. Laws? Format shifting is legal in the US.
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I don't live in the U.S.
And format shifting isn't DRM removal, which is required first for many ebooks.
It is not clear to me, that DRM removal for personal use, is acceptable in the eyes of the Law, though at the whim of a Judge you might get away with it.
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A meteor could wipe out all like on Earth in an instant. Anything can happen. Meanwhile, I have bought many, many, many books in a way that suits me.
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Not sure of the relevance.
At the moment, DRM can be stripped, if you have things setup right.
That could likely change any time if Amazon wanted ... and we still can't strip it from version 25 and newer. So nowhere near a rare event like that meteor.
So in my view, not wise to buy a Kobo for me, counting on being able to strip the DRM from Kindle ebooks, which is what I mostly buy (99%). That to me, is like putting all your eggs in one basket.
That said, if I did buy a Kobo, it would be because I wasn't counting on the status quo not changing. It would be because I have a large library anyway, and I wanted a Kobo for practical reader reasons.
In fact, both my Kindle devices are full, with many of my purchases not even on them. I have some of the overflow, the graphical based ebooks, on my Samsung tablet. I can only browse the rest on Kindle For PC, which has all my purchased Kindle ebooks.
So I am at that stage where another portable device would be handy ... if just for all the Amazon freebies, most of which aren't on my devices. But hey, that's a first world problem ... so no hurry ... yet.