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Originally Posted by leebase
It doesn’t matter which part of the stack breaks, but that SOMETHING always does. I’m not THAT afraid Amazon is going out of business or they will target me such that the danger of losing my books is THAT much of a concern. And while I prefer FBReader, I can certainly read with the kindle app.
I wish that after I took the time to learn and get it working, that it would just continue to work. But in MY experience, it doesn’t.
I also can acquire a DRM liberated book “somewhere else” if needed. Which, as someone who bought the book, doesn’t bother me to do.
I can’t attest to anybody else’s experience. But for me who has made a living in IT for 40 years….even I do not find Calibre, DeDRM to be easy to keep up with. And every time I say so, I get the “well, for me it always works”.
Well…happy for those folks. It’s not been my experience.
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Think of pBooks and eBooks as an LP and a CD. You buy the LP, you can play it and record it to your computer and make a CD from it. If you'd rather, you can buy the CD. But you are not entitled to the CD. Same goes if you buy the pBook, you can convert that to an eBook or you can buy the eBook. But you are not allowed to download the eBook or the CD.
The only places you are allowed to acquire the eBook is from a bookstore, library, publisher site, author site, etc. If the eBook is public domain, then you can try to find it at sites such as Project Gutenberg.