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Old 09-24-2011, 09:13 AM   #37
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Once again (for clarity's sake)... calibre doesn't have anything to do with stripping DRM. They work too hard on that perfectly legal (and vastly handy) application for such a careless association to take hold permanently. Third party addons to calibre do the stripping. I know I probably sound like a broken record, but I don't care... the distinction is rather important, I think.
No, it is an important distinction. Calibre isn't the program removing DRM. It's the third party plug-ins that do that. Calibre, however, is an excellent tool to maintain and back up our ebook libraries once the books have been "liberated".
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