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This is why I almost never get any Digital Book. The only digital books I have are books that were free either originally or through a giveaway, or that were severely discounted and I already owned physically. That's also why I don't buy movies or TV series digitally. You're just renting these things, and you're only renting them when you have an internet connection.
Physical vs. DRMed digital is not a dichotomy. Personally for books, I do prefer paper ones - and mostly read in my language on paper. However, pretty much all non-fiction I read is in English, and getting it in paper would cost a fortune (English books are not sold here that much as we're not an English-speaking country, and shipping would likely cost more than the book itself).
As for movies and music - it's all digital DRMless as well, unlike books, there isn't even a functional difference between a file from a tracker vs. a file from a DVD, except that you wouldn't have to throw out a perfectly good disk after ripping.
You can download and keep countless ebooks from https://annas-archive.org/
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