I just want to click "Pay", and then click "download PDF" so I can annotate the books in my favorite app. Why do they have to make it more complicated than that.

This reminds me of a few months ago when I accidentally bought a 90 USD Ebook that came with DRM. I didn't realize it until I clicked the download button and got some Adobe digital editions file. I immediately Googled for a PDF copy of the book and saw that there were plenty on the first page of Google, so I don't know what the point of the DRM was other than to make me have to download some crappy reader just to read it. Thank goodness the company that sold the Ebook was willing to refund me.

I would pay for my content if I actually got to own it. But no, ironically I have a greater sense of ownership by obtaining my content via alternative means than the traditional legal means.

The only media that I still have on streaming services is music. Spotify is just so damn convenient. I need to find a way to move off it though, as over the years I’ve found many of my favorite albums just disappear as Spotify ends licensing deals or whatever.

To let me find the critical part faster next time, I wanted to highlight the relevant part of the manual. Sadly the manual was DRM protected and didn't want to let me annotate the manual...

So I had to find a way to work around it, but I felt like a criminal, just because I wanted to use a highlighter on the digital manual of a physical product I bought.