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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I mostly remove it because I want to read the books on both a Kindle and a Pocketbook (previously a Kobo). I'm not going to buy a book twice because I use an epub reader and my partner uses a kindle reader

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Makes perfect sense to me!

I really don't want to get too far into the "beaten to death" bit, but buying a book from Amazon (or Kobo) and then removing DRM and converting it to the other format so it can be read on another device by another person is actually worse than buying a copy then downloading a pirate version for your single device.

Buying and then duplicating the copy to multiple devices violates the license and deprives the author of money from the second sale. It also allows reading both copies at the same time, which breaks the "treat it like a physical book" argument, where you can loan the book without loaning your entire library. Buying a copy and then downloading a pirate version to read on a single device gives the author exactly the amount of money that they should receive.

What you wrote could easily be changed to:
Buying a copy first does not lend you any moral or legal right to create and share a pirated copy (even within your own household), and certainly violates MR's rules not to advocate piracy. I find the desire to share ones intent to do so rather odd. If you wish to participate in such practices, please consider keeping it to yourself. Sharing your plans to create pirate copies will only get you censured (and possibly banned) on Mobileread.

I format-shift my purchased eBooks all the time, and I do technically create multiple copies and violate the license agreements, but there is never an instance where more than one copy can be read at the same time.