I try running the ineptkey (with the latest ED version on vista home 32 bit) but I keep getting windowsError.

The best part is the window error code keep changing. So i have no idea what is going on, and how I am going to get the ineptkey to work.

Here is the error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\user\Desktop\Testing\ineptkey.pyw", line 198, in main
retrieve_key(keypath)
File "C:\Users\user\Desktop\Testing\ineptkey.pyw", line 140, in retrieve_key
vendor = cpuid0()
File "C:\Users\user\Desktop\Testing\ineptkey.pyw", line 103, in cpuid0
cpuid0__(buffer)
WindowsError: exception: access violation writing 0x01AE9C00

I saw this back on page 28 of this thread. Please forgive me for not reading all the way to page 50 to see if the question had been answered already :D

To fix this error, you need to add python.exe and pythonw.exe to Vista's Data Execution Prevention exception list.

Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Performance (Settings) -> Data Execution Prevention

Browse for your python exe's (e.g. c:/Python26/python.exe) and add them to the list of exceptions.

I saw this back on page 28 of this thread. Please forgive me for not reading all the way to page 50 to see if the question had been answered already :D

To fix this error, you need to add python.exe and pythonw.exe to Vista's Data Execution Prevention exception list.

Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Performance (Settings) -> Data Execution Prevention

Browse for your python exe's (e.g. c:/Python26/python.exe) and add them to the list of exceptions.

I enabled this option only for the windows services. A lot of (older) programs and games aren't very capable in using it.

I haven't checked the code but perhaps there is a better way to execute the assembler byte code.

I haven't checked the code but perhaps there is a better way to execute the assembler byte code.
Yes, in the same way as the 64-bit code.

Yes, in the same way as the 64-bit code.

As I understand the ineptkey script jumps to a bunch of bytes and executed them. Buffer overflows and other exploits do it the same way and so jumping to a data or stack section isn't allowed if DAP is enabled (aka. No Execution Bit).

Are there any updates?

Are there any updates?

What script?

You could google for ineptkeyv45.

You could google for ineptkeyv45.

Ineptkey 4.5 is working with Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (Data Execution Prevention (DEP) included).

I couldnt get either of these pdfs decrypted
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7497342/A_Journey_to_the_Center_of_.PDF
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7497342/Middlemarch.PDF
The date modified on them is 6/9/2005
The error is:
Error: Error -5 while decompressing data

If they are from 2005 it could be an older version of ADE DRM, which cannot be decrypted by ineptpdf. And indeed if you look into the the file, it doesn't seem to have the usual characteristics of the current ADEPT.

I couldnt get either of these pdfs decrypted
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7497342/A_Journey_to_the_Center_of_.PDF
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7497342/Middlemarch.PDF
The date modified on them is 6/9/2005
The error is:
Error: Error -5 while decompressing data

If you got Adobe Reader / Acrobat 7 you could use the 'export trick' described earlier.

could someone post md5s for latest ineptkey ineptepub ineptepdf tools and version numbers?

mine are:

f5a1a50b9e2e0978e9d618aaefd50c8f aineptpdf.pyw v5
1821baa70be8f1c4c78da6f8b60e40bd ineptepub.pyw v5.2
1b8415905de4e330269faefe57a9630d ineptkey.pyw v5
d7cc781ef2bef9eaf5ba0550c636175d ineptpdf.pyw v7.4

could someone post md5s for latest ineptkey ineptepub ineptepdf tools and version numbers?

d7cc781ef2bef9eaf5ba0550c636175d ineptpdf.pyw v7.4

The latest version of ineptpdf is 8.4.22 ... :thumbsup:

The latest version of ineptpdf is 8.4.22 ... :thumbsup:


It is up to now:

ineptpdf 8.4.26 on the 31st of Jul 2010 11:04:58 PM

#
# 8.5.25 - more compatibility with unicode files (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.5.26 - automated session/user cookie request function (works
#
# only with Firefox 3.x+) (Tetrachroma)

look for in the usual places..

inpetpdf revision history

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# Revision history:
#
# 1 - Initial release
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# 2 - Improved determination of key-generation algorithm
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# 3 - Correctly handle PDF >=1.5 cross-reference streams
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# 4 - Removal of ciando's personal ID (anon)
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# 5 - removing small bug with V3 ebooks (anon)
#
# 6 - changed to adeptkey4.der format for 1.7.2 support (anon)
#
# 6.1 - backward compatibility for 1.7.1 and old adeptkey.der (anon)
#
# 7 - Get cross reference streams and object streams working for input.
#
# Not yet supported on output but this only effects file size,
#
# not functionality. (anon2)
#
# 7.1 - Correct a problem when an old trailer is not followed by startxref (anon2)
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# 7.2 - Correct malformed Mac OS resource forks for Stanza
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# - Support for cross ref streams on output (decreases file size) (anon2)
#
# 7.3 - Correct bug in trailer with cross ref stream that caused the error (anon2)
#
# "The root object is missing or invalid" in Adobe Reader.
#
# 7.4 - Force all generation numbers in output file to be 0, like in v6.
#
# Fallback code for wrong xref improved (search till last trailer
#
# instead of first) (anon2)
#
# 8 - fileopen user machine identifier support (Tetrachroma)
#
# 8.1 - fileopen user cookies support (Tetrachroma)
#
# 8.2 - fileopen user name/password support (Tetrachroma)
#
# 8.3 - fileopen session cookie support (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.3.1 - fix for the "specified key file does not exist" error (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.3.2 - improved server result parsing (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4 - Ident4D and encrypted Uuid support (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.1 - improved MAC address processing (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.2 - FowP3Uuid fallback file processing (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.3 - improved user/password pdf file detection (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.4 - small bugfix (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.5 - improved cookie host searching (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.6 - STRICT parsing disabled (non-standard pdf processing) (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.7 - UTF-8 input file conversion (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.8 - fix for more rare utf8 problems (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.9 - solution for utf8 in comination with
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# ident4id method (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.10 - line feed processing, non c system drive patch, nrbook support (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.11 - alternative ident4id calculation (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.12 - fix for capital username characters and
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# other unusual user login names (Tetrachroma & ZeroPoint)
#
# 8.4.13 - small bug fixes (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.14 - fix for non-standard-conform fileopen pdfs (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.15 - 'bad file descriptor'-fix (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.16 - improves user/pass detection (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.17 - fix for several '=' chars in a DPRM entity (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.18 - follow up bug fix for the DPRM problem,
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# more readable error messages (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.19 - 2nd fix for 'bad file descriptor' problem (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.20 - follow up patch (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.21 - 3rd patch for 'bad file descriptor' (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.4.22 - disable prints for exception prevention (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.5.23 - check for additional security attributes (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.5.24 - improved cookie session support (Tetrachroma)
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# 8.5.25 - more compatibility with unicode files (Tetrachroma)
#
# 8.5.26 - automated session/user cookie request function (works
#
# only with Firefox 3.x+) (Tetrachroma)

8.4.28 seems to support APS as well ...

can someone drop a link for me for removing the drm?

can someone drop a link for me for removing the drm?

at the risk of appearing uncharitable, just use a search engine like google - I've just done so ....

does inept work for both epub an pdf? And how easy (with good results) is it to convert an epub title to mobi to read on amazon? Excuse my ignorance.

does inept work for both epub an pdf? And how easy (with good results) is it to convert an epub title to mobi to read on amazon? Excuse my ignorance. Yes, but there are separate indeptpdf and ineptepub scripts. Calibre does a good job of converting ePub to MOBI. There is a long list of differences between ePub and MOBI (almost all improvements in ePub), but in practice ePub and MOBI are interchangeable in the typical mostly-text ebook.

thanks a lot! I would have thought two html formats would be easy to manipulate.

hello everyone, i downloaded the ineptpdf file and rename it "ineptpdf.pyw"....but when i double-clicked it a notepad window came on with writings on it...so how do i run the script w/o the writings coming up all the times?

thank you

Hey all, i'm using ineptkey43 and ineptpdf74. The key gets created, and it says file successfully decrypted, but it isn't decrypting the file. I have a nook, and this textbook is a textbook i'd rather not carry around with me, but i can't break the DRM. I've attatched the pdf below. Thanks in advance!

[Link removed - title may be copyrighted - Moderator]

Greetings Geokhentix:
Are you choosing a different folder for your decrypted book? Are you sure that it is infact the decrypted version that is getting added to Calibre? If you get a successfully decrypted response from ineptpdf, then the new ebook that you are creating should be drm free. Might want to give it a slightly different file name so you can keep the two files separate.

cheers

hello everyone, i downloaded the ineptpdf file and rename it "ineptpdf.pyw"....but when i double-clicked it a notepad window came on with writings on it...so how do i run the script w/o the writings coming up all the times?

thank you

Have you installed PyCrypto (http://stream-recorder.com/forum/showpost.php?p=13655&postcount=3)?

yes i have

Greetings Geokhentix:
Are you choosing a different folder for your decrypted book? Are you sure that it is infact the decrypted version that is getting added to Calibre? If you get a successfully decrypted response from ineptpdf, then the new ebook that you are creating should be drm free. Might want to give it a slightly different file name so you can keep the two files separate.

cheers

Thanks for the response! It is indeed the correct file, and it still has DRM(Or appears to...) However, I've have some progress, i've noticed that in Adobe Acrobat, the first page is default zoomed at 5485% and if i scroll to page 2, it says "The document could not be saved. There was a problem reading this document.(14)." If i try to Save As, it does the same thing. If i delete the first page, it doesn't delete.

yes i have

Can you double check that your .pyw file is associated with pythonw.exe.

Can you double check that your .pyw file is associated with pythonw.exe.

im sorry...but i dont know what you mean by being associated....i have pythonw.exe in a different directory though

im sorry...but i dont know what you mean by being associated....i have pythonw.exe in a different directory though

i found another way daffy...when i drag the ineptpdf.pyw onto the pythonw.exe, the decrypter window popped up

thanks for your help::thumbsup:

im sorry...but i dont know what you mean by being associated....i have pythonw.exe in a different directory though

Glad you got it worked out!

Just so you know, associating a file type means that a particular program will be used to open it. Some file types can be opened by more than one program and in this case you want your .pyw file to be opened by pythonw.exe and not notepad.exe or IDLE.

To associate a file type, right click on it and select "open with" from the menu. From the dialog box that opens, browse to where the pythonw.exe program is and select it then select "ok". Once associated, anytime you click on a .pyw file, it will be opened by pythonw.exe without you having to do anything else. :)

Glad you got it worked out!

Just so you know, associating a file type means that a particular program will be used to open it. Some file types can be opened by more than one program and in this case you want your .pyw file to be opened by pythonw.exe and not notepad.exe or IDLE.

To associate a file type, right click on it and select "open with" from the menu. From the dialog box that opens, browse to where the pythonw.exe program is and select it then select "ok". Once associated, anytime you click on a .pyw file, it will be opened by pythonw.exe without you having to do anything else. :)

gotcha...i never knew that it (associated) was referred as such..

Hey all, i'm using ineptkey43 and ineptpdf74. The key gets created, and it says file successfully decrypted, but it isn't decrypting the file. I have a nook, and this textbook is a textbook i'd rather not carry around with me, but i can't break the DRM. I've attatched the pdf below. Thanks in advance!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4JPIPGY4

The pdf isn't encrypted at all. Acrobat 9 is displaying it (the first page had an error message).

I seem to be having a fairly unique problem....

I can run and get a key absolutely fine - however when I run the ineptepub.pyw no input box appears.
When I run it through Python and look at the log, I get the error message
"AttributeError: function 'd2i_RSAPrivateKey' not found"

Even stranger is that when I use the ineptpdf.pyw it all works fine.

I am using;

Python 2.6.6
Pycrypto 2.1.0 (for 2.6)
ineptepub 5.2

Anyone got any ideas on why this won't work?!

Cheers

Bud

:hatsoff:

Welcome to mobileread ....

Perhaps the routine hasn't found the appropriate key ... ?

I seem to be having a fairly unique problem....

I can run and get a key absolutely fine - however when I run the ineptepub.pyw no input box appears.
When I run it through Python and look at the log, I get the error message
"AttributeError: function 'd2i_RSAPrivateKey' not found"

Even stranger is that when I use the ineptpdf.pyw it all works fine.

I am using;

Python 2.6.6
Pycrypto 2.1.0 (for 2.6)
ineptepub 5.2

Anyone got any ideas on why this won't work?!

Cheers

Bud

Welcome to MobileRead, Bud. Don't forget to go to the 'introduce myself' thread so we can welcome you poperly. Click on my linky.

I seem to be having a fairly unique problem....

I can run and get a key absolutely fine - however when I run the ineptepub.pyw no input box appears.
When I run it through Python and look at the log, I get the error message
"AttributeError: function 'd2i_RSAPrivateKey' not found"

Even stranger is that when I use the ineptpdf.pyw it all works fine.

I am using;

Python 2.6.6
Pycrypto 2.1.0 (for 2.6)
ineptepub 5.2

Anyone got any ideas on why this won't work?!

Cheers

Bud
d2i_RSAPrivateKey is an openssl function. So it might me that you don't have a good openssl installation.

Just want to say a very large thankyou to everyone who has posted help in this thread - I've finally got the last few stubborn books done :)

(if I can find the posts that specifically helped again, I'll give karma - my brain was too fuddled by the time I went to bed at 5am to do it then :smack:)

Just want to say a very large thankyou to everyone who has posted help in this thread - I've finally got the last few stubborn books done :)

(if I can find the posts that specifically helped again, I'll give karma - my brain was too fuddled by the time I went to bed at 5am to do it then :smack:)

Glad I'm not the only one who benefited .... :)

I really need some help.....I got very strange output for a new bought pdf. - Only even pages were decrypted but odd pages are blank .... no any error messages ...

ADE 1.72.1131
Python 2.7
ineptpub.pyw v5
ineptpdf.pyw v8.4.35

Any ideas ?

Searched the thread , seems I'm not the only one.. Gremlin at page 50 had the same issue..
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=957535&postcount=750

:hatsoff:

Welcome to mobileread ....

Hope someone will drop by and suggest something for you - but it is beyond my ken ... Good luck....

It's a known bug either in the pdf parser or the pdf dump method (probably not in the decryption routines).

Unfortunately I'm not a PDF expert and more unfortunately no one of the pdf geniuses has stepped up to help.

I would say just freeloading doesn't work all the time (just kidding but as long as no pdf expert is willing to invest some time there will be no solution).

Thanks joblack for the info.Hopefully some pdf geniuses will drop by soon...
further found is the correct page is 6.73x9.35 inch but blank page shows 8.50x11.00 inch

I have some pdf with APS protection. Basically acrobat ask permission to a remote server for opening files.

I found a workaround in a german forum and it worked (i have to setup an apache server on my machine to act like a middle man and intercept comunication between acrobat and remote server).
Now im trying to use inetpdf with a principal key. Problem is i cant find this key in the logs. In ineptpdf there is an example of principal key (for a library in geman) but in my logs there is nothing of that lenght (all bigger).
Under what section are supposed to be this key?

tetrachroma help :)

I have some pdf with APS protection. Basically acrobat ask permission to a remote server for opening files.

I found a workaround in a german forum and it worked (i have to setup an apache server on my machine to act like a middle man and intercept comunication between acrobat and remote server).
Now im trying to use inetpdf with a principal key. Problem is i cant find this key in the logs. In ineptpdf there is an example of principal key (for a library in geman) but in my logs there is nothing of that lenght (all bigger).
Under what section are supposed to be this key?

tetrachroma help :)

The PrincipalKey in the log file might be longer. As far as I remember they added something on the front or back of the key.

But you do have a key named PrincipalKey (don't mind the length) in the logs? If yes did you de-base64ed it?

Neisklar and I made an estimated guess that the PrincipalKey is available on other servers, too. We had only one example so we couldn't be sure. I would have to reread the exact mechanisms to remember it.

Anyway, you might send me an email. No reason to get MobileRead into trouble ... ;)

i got everything installed and it worked for a while but since i've typed a new key in the source code i get every singele time the error: incorrect padding what schould i do?am i the only one with this error?

i got everything installed and it worked for a while but since i've typed a new key in the source code i get every singele time the error: incorrect padding what schould i do?am i the only one with this error?

Python is extremely picky about the amount lines are indented. You need to add or remove spaces at the start of the line complained about to make it match the other lines. (Not necessarily the same indent as the line before it though - Python uses indents to mark sections like C uses {}, so the conditionally executed statements of an if statement need to be one 'indent amount' in. Usually four space multiples in my experience.

i got everything installed and it worked for a while but since i've typed a new key in the source code i get every singele time the error: incorrect padding what schould i do?am i the only one with this error?


:hatsoff:

Welcome to mobileread .... :2thumbsup

@GeoffC thx

@pdurrant what do you mean? i justed copied it from here deleted there are no spaces in the beginning or the end

@pdurrant what do you mean? i justed copied it from here [link removed] there are no spaces in the beginning or the end

It's a policy at Mobileread that direct links aren't posted to DRM removal tools. A moderator should edit your post shortly, or you could edit it yourself.

You need to read up on indentation in Python.
http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html (2.1.8)
http://www.secnetix.de/olli/Python/block_indentation.hawk

ok big thanks its work now

Would love to be able to use this (if I had it), since I have about 90 PDF's in DE which I can no longer download since the January aggregator debacle at Fictionwise. I'd like to be able to put them into Calibre with the rest of my books.

I have 3 versions of the key script: 4.4, 4.5 and 5, 4.5 being the only one that appears to function, but attempting to use for single books gets me the usual answer about error decrypting book session key, when I try using the 7.4 for PDF's.

Have since found the 3.3 version tools and tried 5.4 key with the 7.8 with no better results.

Hi,

If you can open and read those specific PDF's in ADE on your Mac or PC, then the "tools" should be able to help you convert them. You need to try with PDFs taken directly from your your ADE ebooks folder (to make sure they were properly encrypted by ADE). The latest is "tools_v3.3.zip". Google ApprenticeAlf and read that website. There are many helpful instructions there to get you going.

That's what I did, but I always get the error decrypting book session key anyway

Hi,

So you ran read that exact pdf with ADE no problems on that very machine and account, but when you copy that pdf file out of "My Digital Editions" folder on your Mac or PC and input it to the correct tool taken from tools_v3.3.zip you get an error?

What version and which tool are you trying with? I suggest you report your exact error message, what version you are trying with, if your adeptkey.der was properly created, etc, in the Comments at the bottom of the ApprenticeAlf blog and I am sure someone there can help you.

That is retired as of last month, and although he passed the passwords on to others for future use, the comments are disabled at the moment.

Hi,

Alf retired but the site does live on in reduced form and the comments are enabled on the very last topic on his blog. That is where you need to ask if you want help, I think.



That is retired as of last month, and although he passed the passwords on to others for future use, the comments are disabled at the moment.

Try the Calibre plugins as described on Alf's blog.

Hi ThePage,

That's what I did, but I always get the error decrypting book session key anyway

I see there is now a new version of the tools (v3.4) posted with an updated ineptpdf (v7.9) that changes the logic for determining book session keys.

So if you are still having problems, you might want to grab that new version and check to see if it fixes your issue.

My problem was at least partially responsible for the new versions.

A special hack that was concocted to get a read-out of my book-key data unexpectedly handled the DRM removal on my 90 or so PDF's, but required handling them singly as the new plug-in was still
"under construction"

I just finished removing the plug-in which hadn't worked for me, but will add the new one if I ever find that I'll be needing it.

While this has concluded my DRM removal phase in cataloguing books, I still have a few loose ends.

I have twenty books in LIT format which are only readable WITH the DRM.
Downloading new copies did NOT improve matters.

Where should I look, or who should I talk to in search of help in sorting these out into proper readability without the DRM?

I have twenty books in LIT format which are only readable WITH the DRM.
Downloading new copies did NOT improve matters.

Where should I look, or who should I talk to in search of help in sorting these out into proper readability without the DRM?

If you look at the ApprenticeAlf Blog main page (and search for Microsoft Lit) you will find a link to the program that deals with Lit files.

Also, if you have a free moment you might want to verify that the latest ineptpdf version still works for your special case just to verify that the general solution did not break things for you (and others with problems similar to yours). I am sure people there would love to know that.

Will check that later.

I've already successfully used Convertlit on several hundred to several thousand books.

I am however still concerned with the 20 that become unreadable after removal of the DRM.

Will check that later.

I've already successfully used Convertlit on several hundred to several thousand books.

I am however still concerned with the 20 that become unreadable after removal of the DRM.

Hi,

Interesting. I know nothing about the lit format. But perhaps those 20 lit ebooks never had DRM to begin with and so removing it, ends up with garbage? Have you tried loading them in some other software that reads no-drm lit to see if they can be read as they are? Just a thought?

Also, perhaps you have two different keys. I think you might want try rerunning the key generation tool after opening one of those books in the reader just in case, these 20 use a different key than all of your other books.

They are all fully readable with the DRM in place.

I've heard of examples like this have internal errors that mess them up after the DRM's been removed, but don't recall what if anything was discussed for remedies - I didn't expect to end up with so many.

Just thought it best to ask those I was already talking with, before going elsewhere, just in case they might already know what I needed - would silly to find out (much) later, that this was the case!

Did NOT, unfortunately find any promising threads, but Calibre may have taken care of at least part of it in the process of adding the books to the catalog.

Went to check a book in detail after finding this out and discovered that one of the more problematic had improved - it only seemed to show the first few pages before being added to Calibre, which might have been due to the title page reoccurring at the point that it stopped showing pages before.

Now it shows the title page twice, and keeps going, so it should be usable, despite looking exceedingly weird. Will check the others and see what I've got.

It could be that converting to ePub will allow fixing most of the difficulties, I HOPE!

The title page had been used in place of the cover, which I find is common, especially with the BIG NAME publishers. The real title page confused matters by following the photographs, which came immediately after the cover, and before TOC, etc. - which did follow the title page.

It was greatly improved by converting to ePub, however, so we'll see what can be done w/the others.

Thanks for all your help.

The other 19 books were improved enough in being added to Calibre to be used w/o conversion, but checking them over thoroughly reminded me that the BIG NAME publishers seem to be thoughtless enough to believe that once you've paid for a book that you will never have any need or desire to view the cover art for the rest of your life, since they generally use only a generic and/or UGLY title page at the beginning of all their eBooks.

Will check that later.

I've already successfully used Convertlit on several hundred to several thousand books.

I am however still concerned with the 20 that become unreadable after removal of the DRM.

I found one LIT eBook that without DRM was not able to be viewed in MS Reader. But Calibre was still able to deal with it and convert it to ePub. Give it a try. Might work.