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Originally Posted by haertig
Barnes & Noble and their Nook used to let you do that too. But then they stopped allowing you to download to your computer for backups. So I switched to Amazon and their Kindle, because they allowed downloads. Now Amazon is stopping downloads (currently only for "rented" items and newly published items, but we all know what's coming next, and probably very soon). So now I'm supposed to switch to Kobo and their Clara (or whatever), because they allow downloads? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me a third time? No, I do not think I will position myself for that to happen again.
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Personally, I think that not tying myself into any store/brand is the way to go. It's not a marriage for life, and I want to keep the freedom to change my device as I wish.
As of now, buying from Kobo allows me to:
- still deDRM what I buy
- sideload what I buy to any other device that is a native epub e-reader
I have lost hope that publishing companies will decide en masse to forgo DRM, so the best compromise I'm fine to go with is to either be able to deDRM what I buy or to buy only a DRM format that can be used on different brands. As of now, EPUB allows me to do both. And buying from Kobo allows me to do both as well.
The moment they decide that they will sell only kepubs, and their devices will read only kepubs, and they won't allow me anymore to download a regular acms file from their store, I will say goodbye to them, too, and I won't buy new devices from them either.
But I don't see any reason to say "no, I won't buy from them now because I don't know what they will do in 2 years' time".
After all, up to one month ago, I still bought what I wanted from Amazon. They took out from me the possibility to deDRM what I buy (and I can't use what I buy from them on other e-readers either), so that's a goodbye to them, and thankfully, there are still plenty of online stores that still sell epubs and gladly accept my money
