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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.
I don't see cloud storage and/or eternal redownloads as a replacement for true backups. I've always done backups. Of all my data. On floppy, on tape, on DVD, hard drive, or solid state media. Usually on more than one.
Simple security.
If I bought it I want to keep it.
Especially books because I reread.
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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.
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Same.
In the same vein, I dislike the trend of software development moving towards online repositories for dependencies. Mostly, developers only post their own code on github. You download it, and it's like 100 kB. Then you start toe compile it, and it downloads 250 dependences (and dependencies the dependencies depend on), and that small 100 kB program suddenly takes 15 minutes to compile on a modern computer, and unexpectedly produces a 15 MB binary.
Who's going to guarantee me that I can still rebuild this program in another 5, 10, or even 20 years, after the online repository has been abandoned, or the versions that particular program needs are offline and not available?
I don't yet know a solution to this problem, because some systems just don't even work if they can't check their online repository.