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On a related note:
I feel like I need to make a matrix/spreadsheet of what eReaders need what Operating Systems to be able to fully backup your ebooks. My wife has a Nook, and we recently switched her to a Mac, and I thought that you could decrypt the books straight off the device into Calibre like you could with a Kobo, but, no...you need either a rooted Android device or the legacy Windows app which is no longer offered. So for the time being, she's gotta hang onto that aging Windows 10 laptop just to be able to keep liberating her Nook purchases.
Much in the same way that even Windows will have to hang on to an aging version of Kindle for PC to be able to get any of their books decrypted, moving forward, unless they have an old physical Kindle from which to pull the book from.
I guess my point is, the eReader enthusiast community who likes to remove the DRM from their books seems to take it for granted how much this whole setup barely works, and is only one malevolent vendor update away from completely collapsing.
Even Kobo is the current "best-behaved" of the eReader vendors, but only because they haven't updated their DRM scheme in some time. If they changed that tomorrow, we'd basically be completely SOL.
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