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Originally Posted by Pookeysgirl
Only if you're willing to learn how to strip the DRM and convert to epub.
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I avoided stripping DRM as it looked too complicated, illegal, overly cumbersome, etc. But I've become increasingly frustrated by how often the books I want are unavailable through Kobo or other epub sellers. Amazon almost always has them and available to me in Canada. So, after ten minutes of research on the web, I found a perfect, easy to use method of stripping the DRM using unswindle. and converting it into epub using Calibre.
For the record, I'm a die-hard Kobo fan. I always look there first for every book I want..that's who I prefer to give my money to cuz they're good at what they do. However, I've been amazed at how often they sell only one or two of a three book series though...obvously because of outdated geographical publishing restrictions. Imagine though, how frustrating it is to start a series only to discover that you can't get the final book, or the middle book! That's what finally prompted me to research DRM stripping, not so I can give it away to others, but so I can simply read the darn thing. It's kind of ironic that the publisher's attempts to keep their publishing rights geographically, and digitally protected leads an otherwise legal-minded individual to finally do something considered illegal in order to read the book that we can't buy through proper channels. The picture of publishers that exists in my mind is something like the Three Stooges trying to complete some simple task such as baking a cake. Get the picture? When will these stooopid publishing stooges ever catch on to what the real world is all about? Geeeesh!