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Originally Posted by Sirtel
The solution is not necessarily to buy only books with no DRM. Another way is to remove any DRM immediately after buying and back up your purchased books. That's what lots of people here do and we still have all the books we bought 10-15 years ago. Plus we can read our books on whatever device or app we like.
And of course there are folks who don't care, because they read everything only once and are not fussy about where they read their books. To each their own.
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For me it’s been 25 years. I bought my first ebook in 1999 and I can still put that book on any device I have. For me it only took getting burned once by DRM to learn the lesson of backing up my library. Just last summer Amazon locked me out of my account when I tried to buy a two year subscription to Kindle Unlimited. That’s something I’ve done twice before. If I hadn’t been backing up my purchases I would’ve been more frantic about the situation. I backup my Audible books too. That took longer to do because between my Mom and I we have over 1600 of them. I’m still organizing them in Audiobookshelf.