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Originally Posted by CRussel
Sorry, but it really IS easy. There are no scripts involved, no non-gui things to do, and it isn't even hard to find any more. Any user who can use Calibre can add the plug-ins required to remove DRM and read library books.
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For you, it's easy. For others, it may not be. For my husband or my mother, it would definitely NOT be easy. The most they do on a computer is word processing and internet surfing. Here's an example of why it wouldn't be easy for someone like my husband.
My husband has a podcast and I do all the work for it. It's easy for me. I simply upload his sermon from his digital recorder to the computer, convert it to an mp3 using a program called Audacity and then upload to the site that hosts the podcast. Now, if I were to explain that process to him, he would give me a blank look and then say "Okay, Faith. Can you put my sermon on the computer now?" Do you think someone like him would find it easy to download a library book, download a program like Calibre, download the plugins to strip the DRM and then download it to a Kindle? I can tell you right now, a person like him would not find it easy and would not bother with the process.
There's are lots of people like him. If they use a Kindle, they're not getting library books because they're not going to go through that hassle. Getting a person like that to use Adobe Digital Editions might be pushing it since it requires a USB cord, downloading ADE, going to the library website, downloading the book and then drop and dragging it to the device. Easy for me and you, not so easy for lots of other people.