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Originally Posted by Tarana
Mine are DRM-free on 2 computers plus a hard drive here and a hard drive off site (this includes audiobooks and photos as well, not just limited to ebooks).
Curating my library is kindof fun but I do delete ebooks in the cloud periodically. All the samples and books not part of a series with a rating below 3 get ditched. Another handy thing about Calibre is that I can rate them and sort by rating. Makes the ditching in the cloud much easier.
It is BECAUSE of my diminishing eyesight that I maintain my Calibre library. If one day I can no longer afford to buy ebooks, at least I have a fall back position. I just need my library on a flashdrive. Easy enough to pay a teenager with a laptop to transfer stuff over.
I think if you look a few years back in the news section, a UA Federal judge ruled it ok to make archival copies. If that means removing the DRM to do so, I think that was alright as well. I think eventually the licensing aspect of things like ebooks will change - unlike other software, it is static.
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I never really got into the free books orgy like many did. Way back when I bought the first Sony PRS-500, it came access to 100 PD books. None of those ever made the change over from LRF to EPUB. I have some PD classics, but I'm as likely to invest in a quality penguin version as a freebie. I never purged by Calibre library, but then again, I have never thrown away the mediocre paperbacks that I've bought over the years either. For the most part, the only organizing that I do is to enable me to find books when I want to, rather than have books just so. When I replace a paper book with the ebook version, the paper book gets put in a plastic crate. I did donate a bunch of hard back duplicates to a library, but that was mostly because a friend asked me to since it was a fund raiser for her local library.