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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The notion that each single digital purchase should be unencrypted/saved/backed-up/moved offsite and otherwise lovingly cherished and curated for for the rest of my natural life doesn't make a lick of sense to me any more. *shrug*
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Not quite sure if I would use "lovingly" to describe my procedure for backing up my ebook collection. It is just part of my computer data that I backup. OTOH, I do go back and re-read books so I do like to keep them around.
I do decrypt my ebook purchases since back in the dim distant past, I was twice hit when a company shut down their ebook business and DRMmed ebooks would no longer be readable. I admit that in both cases, I removed the DRM on my local copies when I noticed the shutdown notices. Given the ease of removing DRM when importing into calibre, not an onerous task.
I have to admit that for whatever—possibly warped—reasons, I do not remove DRM from books I don't own. So Kobo Plus, Kindle Unlimited & library loans get dummy entries in calibre so I know I've read them but no local copies are stored.