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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Because unless you have a device that will be able to read it sometime in the future, the DRM backup will be very useless.
You buy a MobiPocket book now. You can read it on say your PDA and iLiad. You archive this book to CD. Now say 3 years down the line you want to pull this book back off CD to read on your new portable reader that has color and foldable screens and A4 PDF view perfectly. But you bought the book from Amazon and they (at the moment) do not give you access tot his book past one year. You can't do it. You cannot download it again to add a new PID to authorize this book. So basically, all you can do is read it on the devices that were authorized at the time of purchase. DRM has screwed you over but good.
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Yes, I am well aware of all that, but that doesn't mean that it can't be archived onto CD in the first place, does it? That's what I understood the original poster to be saying, but perhaps I misunderstood.
With MP, you just need to take care that you keep up to date with "regenerating" your books for new devices. That means buying from reputable sources who do let you re-download your books indefinitely, rather than ones with silly policies like Amazon have.