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Originally Posted by cgsmom
It is very interesting to follow along with the evolution of DRM. I don't know how many people know that Amazon used to sell ebooks in different formats. I used to read on a PDA with Pocket PC software and the Microsoft reader app. I bought books from Amazon in the LIT format. When Amazon bought Mobipocket and turned it into Kindle, all of my LIT books vanished. I emailed Amazon about it and was completely ignored. Those orders even disappeared from my order history. Luckily I found the ConvertLIT program and was able to save them. So you can see why I don't trust Amazon to make sure my books are safely stored on their servers.
As others have said, I also have more books than I could possibly read in my lifetime, so I could stop buying if I had to. I also love playing with new devices. Right now I have 2 Kindles and 2 Nooks. A Kobo is probably in my future so I am not worried, but interested.
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And when Amazon stopped selling eBooks before the Kindle, many people lost access to their eBooks because Amazon even took them down from user's accounts. So for DRM that relies on the computer hardware, if the computer was upgraded/changed/etc, the eBook was no longer accessible.