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I actually agree. Back in the PDA era, that is what I would do. Saved me a lot of grief when MS Reader folded. I never bought a mobi ebook until Mobi DeDrm came out. I ignored Kindle until it was cracked. I don't trust to the kindness of multinationals. Amazon isn't likely to kill their golden egg goose by hardening the DRM completely but just because it isn't likely today doesn't mean they won't at some point in the next century. Best practice is to buy, strip DRM, and archive the disinfected copy. Belt and suspenders kind of thing, making sure you protect against the one in a zillion improbability. Last edited by fjtorres; 10-15-2018 at 07:20 PM. |
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Having said all that, I do agree you should strip the DRM immediately. I had a book on my shopping list for quite a while. John Coyne's The Piercing. For whatever reason it is now unavailable. Like leebase, I tried to see if it was available elsewhere on the interwebs. No luck. The book wasn't popular enough I suppose. Not everything is available everywhere. If you lose access to a book you purchased you may well not be able to find a 'back-up' elsewhere. |
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The difference, in many cases, is that you started with a good source, whereas the webz versions are sourced from OCRs or PDFs.
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Overdrive cancelled their contract and they lost access to a whole bunch of ebooks. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=35896 https://dearauthor.com/ebooks/fictio...t-please-read/ Trust but veri...er, backup. Last edited by fjtorres; 10-16-2018 at 05:34 PM. |
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And verify that the restored backup is correct and complete. |
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Or where someone just slapped a PDF into Calibre, PDF->EPUB, and call that an "EPUB" version of the book. You also have others who have gone EPUB->MOBI->(You acquire a backup copy)->EPUB, compounding the conversion issues. If YOU are the one working from the originals, YOU are the one who can control the entire workflow, and you KNOW that your originals weren't botched. Quote:
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The worst are these so-called "EPUBs" or "MOBIs" in the ether, which are just auto-generated garbage... similar to Archive.org's non-PDF conversions. It's the difference between these two images: Archive.org "EPUB": Attachment 119234 Proper EPUB: Attachment 119235 "EPUB" = EPUB-in-name-only. Last edited by Tex2002ans; 10-17-2018 at 12:53 AM. |
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I have to say, I would never move to Kindle or iBook. Like trading one slave master for another. Personally I've never understood the format wars. Just get a device that can read anything.
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It's like a universal law. The amount of time, man hours, effort and money to create DRM will always be exponentially dwarfed by the same being expended to break it. People will buy multiple devices to break hardware drm. It just will never happen, it only affects paying customers. |
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Well, there are pros and cons for any device. Yes, I could get an Android reader, install the Kindle app and read the Amazon exclusives that way. But I doubt the reading experience would be as good as on an eink Kindle. I'm a Kindle fan, but that doesn't mean I'm enslaved to Amazon. On the contrary, I buy most of my books elsewhere. As I use Calibre for managing my library anyway, converting and sideloading is no bother for me. All the books on my Kindles are sideloaded.
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Who distributes it and who makes money off it. That is the root of the format wars and they won't end anytime soon. And don't expect any government mandate on orphan works on this side of the pound. Freedom of speech includes the right to *not* say anything (think: MIRANDA rights) and protection against "search and seizure" makes property rights very hard to override, especially for commercial use, which means no blanket compulsory licensing of books would pass judicial review. Keeping a book out of print is very much a feature of US copyright. Nobody has a right to another person's IP. |
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I must say it's a bit of a non sequitur. It certainly doesn't have anything to do with DRM or format wars. |
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