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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
Frankly, you can't be confident you won't lose your books because the Opus or the Sony supports the EPub "Standard." Standards change and, more to the point, there is no guarantee that future implementations of Adobe DRM will be backwards compatible. A lot of people on this board lost Adobe DRMed PDFs during the change to ADEPT DRM. There is no guarantee that Adobe will be be any more trustworthy in the future.
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Er. Do you have a web browser? Right, well you can be assured that you can read non-DRM'ed ePub's. It's an XML-based standard, with the book text as XHTML.
That's one reason why it's such a good choice for a Standard.
Astra - The Nook has a user-replaceable $30 battery. I can live with marginally shorter battery life for that.
Elfwreck - No. All you are doing by buying DRM'ed books is encouraging them to continue with DRM. Breaking DRM means not buying DRM'ed books, and letting people know it's because of the DRM you're purchasing other options.