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Originally Posted by Colt
I'd like this to not turn into a giant debate on DRM vs. non-DRM content but simply... What will you do? Buy all of those books again? Go back to paper? What? Needless to say, I think this is the biggest issue making me wary of buying an ebook reader at this point. - Colt
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Personally, I don't
buy DRMed ebooks. I want to download content
once, and read it on whatever device I happen to have available. Since there isn't an agreed upon standard format that everyone supports and all ebook viewers display, I sidestep the matter by getting content in HTML and converting for Plucker, a free, open source offline HTML viewer for my PalmOS PDA.
There's a lot of material out there in that format, from Project Gutenberg, the Baen Free Library, and other sources. More that I
want to read than I have time for, in fact. I figure if I can learn to read a book with each eye, I might have a chance of catching up.
For stuff I want that is only available in unconvertible DRMed ebook form, I buy the paper edition. I happen to like paper books, and have several thousand.
I'm not enthused by current ebook viewer devices because I need a device that does other things besides display ebooks, hence my use of a PDA for the purpose.
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Dennis