Amazon removed books from my Kindle

[Sirtel]

I was a late adopter of ebooks. By then, the Kindle ecosystem was already well established. But before I bought my first Kindle book (I had bought some DRM-free PDF and EPUB books directly from small publishers before that - BTW, none of those publishers are still in business, but I still have the books), I did a thorough research into DRM and its removal - the most important question that I had was "how can I make my own personal back-up copies of the books I buy?" I hadn't heard about stores going out of business and abandoning their customers back then, but backing up my digital purchases was just a natural thing to think of, for me. It didn't even enter into my mind to rely on Amazon or any other store to keep my books.

I haven't changed my viewpoint since then. All digital stuff I want to keep, free or bought, has been backed up in multiple places. I might never need some of it, maybe even most of it, but that doesn't matter - what matters is that it'll be available if I do need it.

I'm not that anal in every aspect of my life, of course - very few people are. But my digital stuff is important to me, so I take care of it. Everyone has different priorities and people value different things. I know plenty of people who don't care about their digital stuff all that much.