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Originally Posted by DNSB
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.
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Makes perfect sense if re-reading is your thing. Or if you back-up computer data.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
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.
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If you stockpile unread ebooks, this makes perfect sense too. I just don't do that. I don't purchase ebooks (or audiobooks) until I'm ready to read them. I let someone else curate my electronic TBR until I make the decision to read one. I'm JIT all the way. So DRM is no longer a mitigating factor in my reading/buying habits. I can't be bitten by DRM servers being shutdown, because I haven't purchased the book yet. By the time I do, I'm reading that DRMed copy and tossing it when I'm done.
I'm not saying everyone needs to think about this the way I do. I'm just saying that DRM is only a factor if you choose to let it be. I am fully post-property when it comes to consuming ebooks and audiobooks. I don't need to own the bits and bytes after I've wrung all the good out of them by reading them (or "listening" to them for all of the pedants out there getting ready to leap
). I've gotten every bit of value out of them that I'm ever going to get. Why keep the carcasses?
And for all the newcomers out there, this is coming from a guy who used to religiously remove DRM (and actually contributed quite a bit of code to the software you all use to "own" your ebooks). So I'm not being blind (and I'm not underinformed). I've just moved on. More and more people are.