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Are you against DRM for technical limitations or convenience? I do it for convenience and started writing down before choosing what to buy, but even some short trilogies have mixed DRM and no DRM. I mostly use Kobo for buying but I have no strings attached.
The main thing that personally drives me nuts about DRM is as a Linux user, many streaming services will only give you 480p or even 360p video even though you're paying for more. With that bullcrap, combined with buggy streaming services, the high seas is sometimes literally a better experience than streaming. Then the hippy moral stuff gets involved:
Although of course, if I can buy it used on Blu-Ray at a local business (Zia and Bookmans are probably the two best places to do it in my area), I'll do that instead, and just rip the Blu-Rays; it funds places I like while still being (more) legal (than just straight up pirating).
(Granted, I'm a bit of a hypocrite, as I don't pirate that much. I'm still on Paramount+ for now because my parents still pay for it, but we're so focused on Star Trek that my idea to just get the Blu-Rays and DVDs is tempting them to get off.)
Both technical limitations, convenience, and moral objections to DRM (if it has to phone home or I can't use it how I want, I won't buy it). I have a Kobo but prefer to have a clean epub for whatever I buy so I feel like I actually own it.
The online shop I bought "Q-Squared" from has most of them DRM free, including all 3 of the Destiny books. Not sure how deep the DRM-free well is, but spot checking it shows most of the ones I looked at were clean. Worst comes to worse, I'll do like I did when I still bought ebooks from Amazon and buy the DRM'd version and high-seas a clean copy.
Where do you buy them from?