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Originally Posted by HarryT
You're going to have to strip DRM no matter what format you use, if you want to buy commercial eBooks. All the big publishers use DRM. Have you come across the program "Calibre"? It's a superb, free, library management and format conversion tool that's supported in its own forum right here at MR. There are a set of plug-in tools available for Calibre for DRM removal. Install them, and DRM removal is a case of "drag and drop" of the book onto Calibre. Works with PC, Mac, Linux, everything.
That reminds me: you're out of luck if you run Linux and you want to buy commercial ePub books. In order to use ePub books, you have to load them to your reader via an Adobe program called "ADE" (Adobe Digital Editions). This is available for Mac and Windows only. Not Linux.
Both ePub and Mobi are available DRM-free, and there are free tools for creating both formats (eg Calibre). It's easy to convert any document to either ePub or Mobi format, or to convert from ePub to Mobi, or vice versa.
BUT, as I say, you won't find many mainstream DRM-free books. Like it or loath it, DRM is what you have to live with. What most of us do is buy our books, and immediately remove the DRM for personal use. Takes moment to do and is painless.
Hope that helps.
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Yeah, I know. I would just like to see an effort by the manufacturer not to intentionally encourage it. I know I'll have to deal with it for some of the books I want.
I do run a small Windows partition on my netbook so I can deal with InDesign and article formatting in general because the paper I write for uses InDesign. The format conversions in Linux aren't quite good enough to deal with something as sensitive as layout design, so it goes.
I will look into Calibre. That sounds very handy.