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04-05-2019, 08:57 AM | #48 | |
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But for consumer *retail* applications? No. Consumers understand that if they buy something, it needs to be transposable. For all the hassles they bring, both Kindle and ADEPT DRM at least are transportable. It's the absolute minimum requirement. Full backup capability, ala DRM-FREE, of course being the gold standard. eReader was good that way. Watermark DRM, ditto. If you can back it up and don't, that's on you. Last edited by fjtorres; 04-05-2019 at 08:59 AM. |
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In general for ebooks, DRM exists to keep people from simply trading books around within their circle of friends, like people do with paperback books. As long as it discourages the casual piracy, i.e. sending a copy to all your friends so you can talk about it next Friday night at your book club, it serves it's purpose for most publishers and authors.
From a book seller point of view, as long as it keeps most people in the ecosystem, a la the Kindle and Books ebook stores, it serves it's purpose. There are enough old kindles out there than trying to put put some super DRM would be more trouble than it's worth. |
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Why would you trap a booby? What did it do to you?
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One of the ebooks on my wishlist is US$5,000. (Five thousand dollars, United States Currency.) I don't remember how much the hardcopy is, but it isn't available through my local library as an interlibrary loan. I've bought ebooks where the MSRP for the ebook was double the MSRP of the hardcopy. (IOW, the trade paperback is US$50, and the PDF is US$100.) I'm paying for the convenience of having the book with me. Amber |
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Lmao...what book cost $5000. Anyone asking $5000 for a book can keep it. I agree with Sarmat. If you want a copy of the book...buy a hardcopy. Eventually one will lose all his ebooks, even if they are in a device somewhere. May take years and years. I personally only read most books once. The ones i would consider reading twice or maybe a beloved series, I will buy paper. The hassle of maintaining an electronic library of books is a waste of time imo. Especially if one has thousands of books. They will never, ever reread them all. The time, worry and money to maintain an electronic library one most likely will never re- read is a bit silly imo. |
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I can find something on my computer much faster than I can find an equivalent item in my house. I can remotely access it too. I lose physical things all the time, but electronic copies are "lost" only temporarily - until I can take a few minutes to do a search if I don't immediately recall where I put them in the file system (which is rare).
Also, the stuff on my computer is backed up to a second computer and also to an external hard disk. Additionally, it is backed up off site. And the really important stuff is additionally written to CD, DVD's and thumbdrives that are stored offsite in my bank safe deposit box. My physical items are nowhere near as readily accessible or as safeguarded as my electronic copies. This is not a hassle, it's such a simple procedure when you know what you're doing. But then, my job is (was, I'm retired now) computers, networking, security, system administration, application development, programming, etc. |
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I do reread (or I'd never have noticed the paper books falling to pieces) and I also have a use for reference books (BTW search functions and having a library on a tablet has been very useful). |
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If you're really paranoid about cloud services, large flash drives are plenty cheap so again, backing up the files to multiple drives including one off-site is only due diligence. Investing US$20 in a 128GB drive (or $50 for a 1TB portable HDD) is only sensible if you want to protect hundreds or even thousands worth of ebooks. No valid excuses left. |
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