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Originally Posted by Jane Eyre
If you create your own books yourself, ok. Of course. I agree with you, but what with purchased ebooks? Even if they weren't locked up with ADE DRM...what you do, you revise xhtml of every single file? 
@DNSB
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I do revise 95%+ of the ebooks that I purchase. All of them get the metadata and cover files updated. Most of the non-metadata changes I make are to the chapter files to set them to my rather boring but—to me—easy to read layout.
ADEPT DRM and Kindle DRM are removed when the books are imported to calibre and Obok can remove Kobo's DRM from Kobo purchases, that covers virtually all of my ebook purchases. One note that due to my personal stance on when removing DRM is permissible, I do not remove DRM from loans (library, Kobo Plus or Kindle Unlimited) since I have not purchased them.
Due to previous experiences where online bookstores shut down or online DRM servers (Microsoft's .LIT format for an example) were shut down and ebooks that I had purchased were now just expensive and useless collections of bits, I do not purchase ebooks where I am unable to remove the DRM.
I've been doing this for quite a few years and have a collection of saved searches that make it relatively easy to make the changes that I want with minimum work by me. I am very grateful to Strahinja Val Marković, John Schember, Kevin Hendricks and Doug Massay for the work they have done on the Sigil editor and Kovid Goyal, Charles Haley and many others for their work on calibre.