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Old 10-25-2024, 03:35 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by cellaris View Post
My case is similar, albeit with some variation. I buy my e-books almost exclusively from alternative bookstores to Amazon and then send them to my Kindle devices. The few books I buy from Amazon I read directly on my Kindle devices. I don't bother to remove DRM. If there was an e-book that I was interested in buying because it was not available elsewhere, I would still buy it and read it on them. The alternative would be not buying it and not being able to read it. I don't see that as a reasonable option, given that I can read it on a Kindle. It would be a different matter if I didn't have a Kindle device.
For me it wouldn't matter if I had a device to read it on or not. I'm not going to buy anything with DRM that cannot be removed. I want to adjust formatting and make a personal backup, neither of which can be done with DRM intact.

And not buying/reading a book at all... easily. I already have far more unread books in my library than I could read in several lifetimes. So for me it makes no sense at all to buy a book with an unremovable DRM.
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