[KevinH]

Hi,

Yes if **anyone** wants to volunteer to create any documentation that better illustrates how to use the tools (no programming experience needed at all!), I am pretty sure it could be posted anonymously on the Alf or DR site and the developers involved would be quite happy to include them in their next release.

As for ease or elegance of use on a Mac, I am just not sure you get make things any easier for this person. There exists a self-initializing drag and drop tool. Just drag and drop the book and get back an dedrm'd book! The page on Alf describes what it is and how to use it in easy to use language and clearly.

The problem seems to be that many people do not understand how other book formats actually work and what it takes to read them. They do for their own type of books, just not for others.

If a Kindle user really wants to read a library book that is an ePub, they still have to learn about how ePub books with DRM are downloaded and read, download and install Adobe Digital Editions and register their id so that a key file is created on their machine. And actually get the book via ADE and be able to read it.

But none of this has anything to do with the tools! The tools can only work if the pieces needed to actually read the book in the first place exist on the machine. There is nothing magic here. If you can't read it on your machine, then there is nothing that will make any of the tools work to read it either.

For the same reason, ePub users must download and install and register Kindle for PC or Kindle for Mac and understand their drm methods (PIDs anyone!) in order to get a Kindle book and convert it to ePub.

All of that said, assuming the OP could actually read an ePub on their machine, then literally all they would have to do to remove the DRM is drag and drop the file on the icon. You simply can not get any easier than that! No worries about Python, no worries about OpenSSL, because this is a Mac that already comes with what is needed and it is installed by default!

In general, people just like to complain and are always unwilling (for sometimes perfectly good reasons) to help out and make things better. It has been that way since the very beginning of software development and will probably stay that way for the rest of time. I have personally been developing software for over 32 years. It never changes.