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Originally Posted by sourcejedi
2. Crack the DRM. (If you don't crack it now, you won't know for sure whether it's possible in the future). That makes you a criminal under EU and US law, and dependent on the continued availability of technology which is suppressed by law. But it is at least physically possible for you to do this with all the major formats right now.
2 b) Grab the books off the darknet (and try to find alternative ways to reimburse your favourite authors). IMO this is morally superior to cracking DRM yourself, but it's more risky (if publishers crack your darknet).
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I know this is getting off topic, but I think that if you don't make your stripped and converted books public, 2) is morally superior than 2b) because you're definitely compensating the author and even though it's not legally viewed this way, I consider it a fair-use of format-shifting, analogous to me buying a CD and ripping it to my mp3 player.
Back to the topic.
I've been reading ebooks on my PDA and computer for at least 3-4 years now, and I just bought a nook because I didn't think that I'd be buying paper books any more. I used to buy at least 30-50 paper books a year (many of them used), and for the last year or so, I don't think I've purchased any paper books that weren't for scanning for Distributed Proofreaders.