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Old 06-27-2021, 08:06 AM   #8
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Download your books, remove DRM and back them up. I'm not sure why you keep mentioning Adobe since they are not an ebook vendor. Basically, for any vendor, follow the same download, remove DRM and back up.
Absolutely. The "Cloud" is just someone else's server, like the 1960s. Data centres burn down and Internet connections break.


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Oddly, the Kobo that I used a real single purpose email account on has only received one email in it's 6 year existence so I can't say that Kobo is selling email addresses.

OTOH, there have been several times where faking registration by writing to the database has caused issues with later firmware updates.
About six years here, and I did use a real email address created especially for that Kobo. Zero emails received, except my own test emails.
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