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Old 12-14-2009, 12:55 PM   #28
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As long as you still have a devise the books work on, and have them backed up to something (a memory card for instance) that will always work with it, and the devise continues to work, won't your books be good for a long time?
They will definitely work on the device, as long as you don't update the firmware to something that potentially changes the supported formats. Similarly, if you don't update the software you use, it will still work with your downloaded books. Hopefully even if you do update, but you can't be sure.

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Also, with technology progressing, in the future, can't we just reformat the books we own to be used on the currant technology?
We already can, if we remove the drm first. The drm doesn't allow you to tamper with the book in any way.

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Wouldn't Sony later, update the books we've bought like they've done this time with the epub change?
Probably. It definitely should. But you're depending on the goodwill of sony.
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