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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
It would seem to me that it matters why you're removing the DRM. If your library only offers e-books in a format that your e-reader doesn't support, then you have no choice but to remove the DRM in order to read the e-book. As long as you delete the file when your loan expires, I fail to see any problem with that. Yes, you could read the e-book on your computer without having to remove the DRM, but presumably people buy e-readers because they don't want to read on LCD monitors.
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For me since I don't need to remove DRM from an library epub to read it on my ereaders, it is a reprehensible act. For a friend of mine who proudly owns 3 Kindles, it is a necessity if they are going to read a library book since Canadian libraries are epub mostly with a few lonely pdfs creeping in. I helped set up calibre and the necessary plugins to allow importing and converting epubs to send to a Kindle.
The other issue is that I don't trust myself not to give into the temptation to keep a borrowed book just a while longer for whatever justification so I'd rather not put temptation in my path.
“I can resist anything except temptation.”―Oscar Wilde,
Lady Windermere's Fan
"L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés ou désirs."—St Bernard of Clairvaux. c. 1150