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Originally Posted by tompe
But the book was backup:ed at Amazon since a bought book can be re-downloaded. So I do not see how a backup was not done or taken into account.
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Relying on backup of suppliers, which can cease business anytime = "foolish".
Did even happen with major player Sony (some MP3 webshop, as far as I remember).
And: He claims, only the combination of annotations AND ebook is usable.
So it would have made sense, backing up those 2 together.
I'd have made a copy of the book, would have stripped it from DRM, converted it into edible format and would have ported my notes and annotations. That's what he needed to do at some stage anyway and it's always "foolish" collecting more and more data and not backing ALL OF IT up.
And: How would he have used the annotations anyway? Can you print the ebook including the annotations? I guess not.
So you probably have to link the annotations to the book in a manual process. This still can be done. Maybe the book is available in Mobipocket and has similar layout?
Anyway, it can't be a problem, linking annotations manually to a book you've just read.
Again: I understand, lots of people consider this a chance to openly raise questions about DRM, owning content or just renting it and issues like that.
But still, this specific case is construed and "foolish".