Quote:
Originally Posted by fjtorres
I never bought an ebook I couldn't back up.
DRM-free from day one, Lit after Convert lit, mobi after deDRM, Kindle after...
It's not about sharing or even format-shifting.
It's the principle of backup.
Simple security.
If I bought it I want to keep it.
Especially books because I reread.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirtel
Ditto. If there was no way to remove the DRM, I would never have bought a single ebook. I don't trust anyone to store my stuff for me. I do have a paid Dropbox plan, but I still make additional backups too. I'm pretty paranoid about my backups, because I've read about too many cases of people losing their stuff, for many different reasons. Accidents, financial crises, accounts closing, whatever. I reread, rewatch, re-consume often, so that makes backups even more important for me.
|
Add me to the list. ConvertLIT saved a good chunk of my ebook collection when Microsoft decided to shutdown their DRM servers. Since then I have removed DRM whenever possible so my backups do not depend on having a server somewhere allowing me to read my books.
For backups, IMNSHO, you can never have too many backups scattered over multiple devices and sites. My main backup is external hard drives with the newest two being stored at work (grandfather, father son rotation). I also use server based storage and cloud services. Over the last couple of years, I've added more copies of the backups -- the process is pretty much automated so set and forget.
As the old IT saying goes: I know I'm paranoid, I just don't know if I am paranoid enough.