I downloaded and installed Calibre. It went well. I visited "My Digital Editions" on my C drive and loaded all the books I had bought... but Calibre told me they were all protected by DRM. I had read in this forum somewhere that trying this would tell me whether or not my books (and I do me
my books since I bought 'em) had DRM or not. That was true, Calibre did exactly that.
Being prepared by reading Alf, I applied the plug in tools available, read the instructions I had printed out, and was then able to use Calibre to open all these books and they looked great! I checked the directory I had made for that library (on a different drive than "My Digital Editions" just in case so there would be no conflict) and upon comparing, the Calibre library directory of the books showed that the books are somewhat smaller than the same MDE directory books.
If I am correct, the smaller file indicates that the DRM was removed (or nulled or crushed or something) from these (
my) books. My question is...
If I back these smaller files up somewhere safe (like a CD) and some time in the coming years want to read them with new technology like a computer and/or ereader that can still read epub (but also washes dishes and tucks me into bed at night and costs under $100)... can this new set of technology read these ebooks that Calibre has... improved/freed up? Is there now no DRM problem?
It seems like the answer is that my books are truly mine now and I don't have to worry much about reading them in the future and I can give way the paper books they replaced... but I want to be 100% sure
