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Originally Posted by haertig
The bright spot for me is that I already have purchased and de-DRM'ed enough books to last me far beyond the years I have left to live. I do hope that will be another 25 or 30 years, but still, I'm set as far as books go. So while Amazon's recent move may stop me from buying yet-to-be-released book 17 in some series that I have been collecting, that doesn't matter too much since I haven't even gotten around to reading books 1 thru 16 yet. Being a pack-rat for books may be scoffed at by some people. And it is a large expense while you are doing it. But when retailers like Amazon make the moves they are making right now, I can switch from being a pack-rat to being a non-purchaser without suffering any significant hit. So be it.
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That's the way I look at it too. At the moment we can still deDRM our purchases from Kobo/Google Play/ebooks.com etc, and also from Amazon with an eink Kindle on our account. The day it's no longer possible to desinfect our purchases is the day I'll stop buying. As I'm also a hoarder, I have enough for the next 100 or 200 years, at least. And I really doubt I'll live that long.
I've never been an one-shop buyer, I've always bought from several. So as long as some of those shops allow deDRMing, I won't have to change my habits much.