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by koopajah 5052 days ago
I agree with you on ease to read on iPad/tablet. But for programming stuff I read a lot on my Kindle when I'm on the move or when I'm tired to sit in front of my computer screen and even if it opens PDF the rendering is never as good as the MOBI version. But I can understand it not being a priority for now.

One other concern : If someone buys a book, you digitalize it and destroy it in the process. Now if someone else order the same book a week later, do you digitalize it again or do you detect it's already been digitalized before and send the previous version. The latter seems more efficient (but maybe not legal?) but the former kind of allow you to keep/resell the version bought previously (which must not be legal from what I understood on your FAQ?).

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Legally, we cannot keep files indefinitely. We do hold on to a file and its corresponding book material for two weeks after it has been processed for QA reasons, among others. This rules out file reuse for us.