09-27-2014, 03:50 PM | #61 | |
Member
Posts: 16
Karma: 10
Join Date: May 2010
Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo, Nexus 7
|
Quote:
|
|
09-27-2014, 03:52 PM | #62 | |
Member
Posts: 16
Karma: 10
Join Date: May 2010
Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo, Nexus 7
|
Quote:
|
|
Advert | |
|
09-27-2014, 04:01 PM | #63 | ||
Member
Posts: 16
Karma: 10
Join Date: May 2010
Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo, Nexus 7
|
Quote:
Note the commentary in this article is exactly what I experienced. So the customer service script needs to be changed if this is actually the answer. Quote:
Hey cool: this article from the Dear Author blog cites this thread! Last edited by Eric Carroll; 09-27-2014 at 04:35 PM. Reason: Blog cites this thread! |
||
09-27-2014, 04:41 PM | #64 | |
Member
Posts: 16
Karma: 10
Join Date: May 2010
Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo, Nexus 7
|
Quote:
Red Planet Blues is not available on ebooks.com. But it is available on Kobo using Adobe DRM so clearly it is not a TOR title. But I did buy it anyway. |
|
09-27-2014, 05:04 PM | #65 |
Member
Posts: 16
Karma: 10
Join Date: May 2010
Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo, Nexus 7
|
John Scalzi's Human Division is a TOR DRM free title.
It shows as not supported for blackberry, which customer service says indicates it is not downloadable. But I put it in my preview, and it shows as EPUB (DRM Free) which I believe means it would be downloadable if I bought it. Now I could have sworn this was not downloadable when I initially looked, so I went to ebooks.com and bought it as DRM free epub. This example appears to show a TOR book from May 2013 as downloadable, but a TOR book from Aug 2014 as not downloadable. So not all TOR books are impacted. Next step is to look at the epub authoring. Last edited by Eric Carroll; 09-27-2014 at 06:12 PM. |
Advert | |
|
09-27-2014, 06:21 PM | #66 | |
Sir Penguin of Edinburgh
Posts: 12,375
Karma: 23555235
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: DC Metro area
Device: Shake a stick plus 1
|
Quote:
|
|
09-27-2014, 06:53 PM | #67 |
Bibliophagist
Posts: 35,356
Karma: 145435140
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Vancouver
Device: Kobo Sage, Forma, Clara HD, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos
|
|
09-27-2014, 08:33 PM | #68 |
Member
Posts: 16
Karma: 10
Join Date: May 2010
Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo, Nexus 7
|
|
09-27-2014, 08:34 PM | #69 |
Member
Posts: 16
Karma: 10
Join Date: May 2010
Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo, Nexus 7
|
|
09-27-2014, 09:51 PM | #70 |
Bibliophagist
Posts: 35,356
Karma: 145435140
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Vancouver
Device: Kobo Sage, Forma, Clara HD, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos
|
My feeling is that the ones for whom it would be truly difficult are not likely to be found among the posters here. Most of the people I know who own ereaders get their ebooks from the on-line store and neither know nor care about what format they are in. For that group it would be hard.
|
09-27-2014, 10:28 PM | #71 | |
Resident Curmudgeon
Posts: 73,943
Karma: 128903250
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
|
Quote:
|
|
09-27-2014, 10:29 PM | #72 |
Resident Curmudgeon
Posts: 73,943
Karma: 128903250
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
|
Question, is there any easy way to tell which eBooks in the Kobo Desktop library are DRM free when you have them all mixed in with ones that do have DRM?
|
09-28-2014, 01:44 AM | #73 | |
Bibliophagist
Posts: 35,356
Karma: 145435140
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Vancouver
Device: Kobo Sage, Forma, Clara HD, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos
|
Quote:
The difference is that epub2 ebooks are also available as downloadable epubs readable on any epub2 software/device while epub3 ebooks are not. What would make sense to me would be Kobo changing their system to treat epub3 ebooks with a toc.ncx as epub2. |
|
09-28-2014, 01:45 AM | #74 |
Bibliophagist
Posts: 35,356
Karma: 145435140
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Vancouver
Device: Kobo Sage, Forma, Clara HD, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos
|
|
09-28-2014, 03:11 AM | #75 | |
Connoisseur
Posts: 63
Karma: 495132
Join Date: Jun 2012
Device: iPad, Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite
|
Quote:
I've got Obok plugin to process my kobo books, the DRMed files are well handled, but I can't get my DRM-free kobo books turned to normal EPUB files. Any suggestions? I checked this thread and someone mentioned change the extension and use Calibre to re-convert to clean the mess codes, I didn't make it however. |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
John Scalzi admits he's a Hack. :) | kennyc | Writers' Corner | 16 | 02-02-2013 09:24 AM |
John Scalzi, New Old Man's War Release | drofgnal | News | 1 | 07-13-2012 09:56 AM |
Free E-Book for John Scalzi Fans | kilohertz53 | Deals and Resources (No Self-Promotion or Affiliate Links) | 2 | 08-04-2010 06:51 AM |
John Scalzi / Ghost Brigades | jaxx6166 | Sony Reader | 6 | 01-24-2010 06:45 PM |
John Scalzi | MachinegunDojo | Reading Recommendations | 3 | 06-13-2008 03:40 PM |