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Originally Posted by issybird
I mostly don't anymore, either. The vast majority of my purchases are from the Kobo or Kindle stores and I just direct download to the relevant devices. I strip the DRM from Google Play books, as I'd rather read on eink than on a tablet.
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I couldn't read without fixing the formatting, but even apart from that, there often are other things in need of fixing. For example, I'm just reading a novel from a major publisher where the TOC consisted only of major sections (Part I, Part II, Part III) without any individual chapters (which were present in the book) in it. This sort of thing makes it very hard to go back and forth between previously read parts to look something up and the page you're currently on. Fixing the TOC in Calibre to add all individual chapters took maybe 5 minutes, tops.
I guess the TOC was also fixed in later editions (I checked with the current Kindle edition), but the edition I have was purchased years ago and had a defective TOC, as described. So the only remedy would have been purchasing it again. Waste of money for something that I could fix so quickly and easily myself after removing the DRM.
Of course YMMV, as always.