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Originally Posted by weedfreak
This is totally not true, there are many options for backing up files, and who in their right minds leaves DRM on ebooks. The first thing I do with any ebook that I get that has DRM is to remove it. I then have all the chance I need to backup the ebook as well as being able to read it when and where I want.
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And part of this (about stripping DRM) is irrelevant to the 'myth'. What is false about the myth is that a DRM'd book cannot be backed up. DRM or not, an ebook is just a file and files can be backed up. (There might be eReaders out there that hide their files, and I'm sure if there are somebody will post that fact, but most of them allow their ebook files to be backed up.)
What is true about the myth is that the backed up file may not be readable until it's restored to the device from which it was backed up. I.e. DRM can make an ebook non-transferable, as a book. But it is transferable, in every case I've seen, as a file.