Thread: Getting Rid of Your Real Books
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Old 01-27-2008, 12:22 PM   #7
AnemicOak
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Originally Posted by Gideon View Post
The copies you buy are in a proprietary, DRM'd format... and all it takes is them to no longer support it for you to lose your library.
I only buy LIT versions of books which I then convert for my Reader (I'd do the same if I had a Kindle or Cybook) so that I'll be able to convert them to other formats if needed in the future. I guess this depends on how you feel about breaking the DRM on LIT files. I don't have a particular problem since I'm format shifting books I bought for my own use only.


I've been able to get rid of some books, but I am finding it hard to give up my pbook copies of many of them. It's probably illogical, but I just can't make myself get rid of some of them. I have stored some of what I've replaced with ebooks in boxes and no longer have them taking up shelf space.
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