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I will not buy DRMed ebooks. I hate the idea that someone can delete a book I bought. Once I have a book, I want to keep it. I have quite a lot of books that b
by graemep 2y ago
I will not buy DRMed ebooks. I hate the idea that someone can delete a book I bought. Once I have a book, I want to keep it.
I have quite a lot of books that belong to be grandfather, and lots that belonged to my parents. A lot of those will last another generation, maybe more. That does not happen with ebooks either.
- galleywest200 2y agoIt is trivially easy to remove DRM with a plugin for Calibre.
- protonbob 2y agoNot with the latest encryption. Although you can always screenshot and ocr. Or maybe I've missed something new.
- EA-3167 2y agoUnless latest means "In the last few months" then no it's still trivial. I buy a lot of "Kindle" books, but I always rip the DRM and make an ebook version I actually use and archive. My attitude is that once I pay for a song/game/book/etc... it's no one's business, but my own how I use it (for myself I mean, obviously uploading it to others is a different issue).
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- goosedragons 2y agoFor books from Amazon. Still trivial to remove DRM from Kobo, Google Play, any place that uses Adobe DRM.
- NoboruWataya 2y agoI think it's easier with some providers than others. I bought an Amazon ebook that I was really struggling to de-DRM (so I promptly returned it and have only bought books with Adobe DRM since).
- seszett 2y agoIt's probably even easier to download them from Z-Library after having bought them on whatever legal platform.
- nottorp 2y agoErm, i have a "friend" that has a few fancy signed physical hard covers that were never opened... because they took their sweet time to arrive so said "friend" downloaded the epub... Also back in the day when games came on discs, they used to download the no cd crack before opening the shrink wrapped box.
- loughnane 2y agoI think we have the same friend. He told me he likes to download a book to get a feel for it… like thumbing through a book in a bookshop. If it’s good, he goes ahead and buys it.
- fullstop 2y agoeBooks can be backed up and survive a house fire or a flood, though.
- thih9 2y agoDepends where the house fire or a flood is. If it's in a data center then they might suddenly disappear[1]. [1]: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire-france-data-center/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire...
- lowdownbutter 2y agoIf only we had more than one datacenter.
- thih9 2y ago> Many believed they had been paying for a reliable service with backups, and were shocked that their data was lost.
- maksimur 2y agoYou can keep multiple copies in different locations.
- thih9 2y agoExactly what the provider said. > Customers were not even compensated for lost data, unless they had paid for backups [which were also lost], with the company saying cloud customers should be handling their own disaster recovery plans.
- dowager_dan99 2y agothe challenge is I don't love my books for the content, but for their essence, so ebooks just aren't as valuable. If my physically books were destroyed in a fire I would be sad because i lost the objects, not temporarily lost access to the contents.
- bluGill 2y agoOn that note, does anyone have a copy of "The C programing language" (first edition) that isn't falling apart because the acid paper is decaying? I was referring to my copy the other day and it is clear the days I own that book are numbered because of planned obsolesce in the 1970s. I never bought the second edition, but if I did I'm sure it too would be falling apart from age before my likely death.
- tartoran 2y agoFirst edition may be collectible regardless of condition. And as well as newer editions it is resalable. Can you sell an used ebook you bought? How about can you buy an used ebook?
- bluGill 2y agoI don't have it because it is collectable. I have it because it is a great book and I still refer to it once in a while. (mostly I can find what I need on the web, but once in a while what K&R really said is important - though mostly for online arguments)
- dokyun 2y agoI got a lightly used copy off Amazon, along with "The UNIX programming environment" a year or two ago, probably. They're both fine with only a bit of wear, but I don't think they were ever of a super sturdy binding that would hold up well under heavy abuse.
- bluGill 2y agoThe binding isn't great, but on my copy the pages themselves are getting brittle. In a few more years if I touch them they will fall to little pieces.
- spc476 2y agoI have a copy of the second edition from 1990, still in good condition (and a finer print job than later editions [1]). [1] https://boston.conman.org/2002/07/23.1 https://boston.conman.org/2002/07/23.1
- op00to 2y agoI buy books and immediately rip the drm out. They get their money, I get my book.
- hagbard_c 2y agoWhere do you live? If you live in the USA you're violating the DMCA, if you live in the EU it is the EUCD which you'll be breaking, elsewhere there may be similar directives. That 'they get their money' does not make any difference here, it is the 'circumvention of technological protection measures' which makes you into a law breaker.