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Originally Posted by Blue2u
Is there an easy way to check that all MY books are now drm free, other than loading another program on my computer to find out? ie, file extension?
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Not exactly, but if you have the DeDRM droplet from the tools set up to output stripped books into a separate folder and you drag and drop your original folder full of books onto it, then it will give you a warning message at the end that "list of so-and-so titles were not encrypted" when it runs into the non-DRM stuff, and it automatically adds _nodrm to the filename, which is really helpful for just visually checking.
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Originally Posted by Blue2u
And now what do I do with my second library that I keep for all the Kindle freebies that I've downloaded over the past few months? ... How the heck do I check those?
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There's actually another script included in the tools that will check and report on the DRM status of any Mobi format books.
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Originally Posted by Blue2u
All this because I want to BUY books from the new Sony store with my new T1 and keep my old books that I BOUGHT for my Kobo.  |
I'm sorry it's gotten so complicated. This is why, out of all the current restrictive DRM schemes out there, the only one I actually approve of is the B&N/eReader DRM, which uses your name and credit card # as a glorified password for your files, which you only have to ever download and enter once, and you don't have to authorize or register stuff, and you can download the files directly from the store's website without feeding through another app, and if ever your CC# changes and you buy new books, then the supporting reader app/device will automatically record it as a new "password" while keeping the old CC's unlock info intact as well, so you can combine purchases from many different accounts.
Hopefully in future iterations, Sony will activate the part of the Adobe SDK which supports B&N-style DRM. Or Adobe will at least force people to register/enter an Adobe ID when installing Digital Editions so that their books will be still be portable to other devices, no matter what.