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I totally agree that digital media isn't anywhere near as permanent as many people think. Here today, gone tomorrow. But I've moved all my reading over to Kin

I totally agree that digital media isn't anywhere near as permanent as many people think. Here today, gone tomorrow. But I've moved all my reading over to Kindle, even so. Because my old eyes can't handle paperbacks anymore. And reading glasses make me so very ill. That's a personal problem, yes, but it is 100% of why I buy eBooks now and why I'm glad they're an option. I guess I could back up the Kindle books, right? They all claim to have no DRM, at the beginning of each book.

unethical_ban 4y ago
Calibre + DeDRM plugin can make your purchases yours. There are also sites that host pirated books. In 2013 or 14 when I decided to get an ereader, I went from Nook to Kobo because Nook books weren't crackable, and then from Kobo to Kindle because I liked the form factor and fonts better. The moment I can't strip DRM from Amazon books is the day I pirate everything, and will purchase deadtree books to give to the library.