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Originally Posted by JBaby
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.
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I bought my first DRMed ebook from Amazon in 2011 (I had bought DRM-free ebooks occasionally since 2006, but I still read mostly on paper until late 2011). Fortunately for me both Calibre and DRM removal were pretty mature by then. I looked it all up, installed and prepared everything before making the purchase, because I wanted to be able to make a personal backup; relying on Amazon to keep my books for me was out of the question. I may have been pretty ignorant in such things then, but that much I knew - you can only rely on yourself to keep your stuff.
Later on I bought both DRMed and DRM-free books from other stores besides Amazon, several of which have long been out of business. Of course any DRM got immediately removed. I've never bought an ebook and not disinfected/backed it up right after buying. I'm pretty anal in this, I guess.
Of course not everyone cares. Some of us want to build a personal book collection; others just read and discard, and don't care about DRM or backing up.