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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Gah, it bugs me when people say this. Very loudly:
LIBRARIES ALREADY HAVE NON-DRM'd eBOOKS.
Go to your Overdrive library. Do an advanced search. Under "format" there should be an option called "Open Epub". Those books don't have DRM.
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I should have qualified my statement to say I was talking about the sorts of copyrighted books I personally read. None of the roughly twenty Overdrive US public library books I have read in the six months since US library Kindle borrowing began were available in Open EPUB.
I just went to search.overdrive.com, where I usually start an eBook library search since I have access to several public libraries. Using the pull-down menu choices "Media Format: Open EPUB" and "Subject: History," I found no library titles. Results were the same for "Subject: Physics" and "Subject: Biography & Autobiography."
Then I tried "Subject: Mystery" and found eight Open EPUB titles. Clicking the first four, none are available at the New York Public Library, but Philadelphia has two.
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Originally Posted by anamardoll
But that's not a "needed in order to work", that's a "needed in order to entice publishers to sell".
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I was led to this by a Philadelphia "Click here for help with Open EPUB eBooks" link:
Opne eBooks cannot be returned early. Only DRM-protected eBooks have this option.
So they may work after a fashion. What happens to an Open EPUB book on the due date? Would I be reminded, on a Nook, to delete the title?