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Originally Posted by nohmi2
I really, really dislike PDF.
My library has the same problem.
I downloaded 'The Book of Counted Sorrows' by Dean Koontz. It has an ebx.etd extension (what on earth!!!)
Then tried using Mobipocket Creator. Needless to say, no joy.
How I wish that we had some sort of magic like the mobidedrm.py
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EBX.ETD is an ebook file that points Acrobat Reader 7.0 or Digital Editions to an Internet address to download a PDF file that has been protected by Adobe's DRM, which appears to be some form of 128-bit encryption scheme.
That PDF file can then be saved as a standalone PDF using the "Save a copy" function of Acrobat 7.0, but it's still an encrypted PDF file that can only be viewed on a computer that has been "activated" by the purchaser or borrower of the Adobe ebook.
Presumably somebody is working on a way to break the Adobe DRM, but it'll be illegal to use that software under the DMCA in the United States and probably similar laws in other countries, even if you're only using it for legitimate format-shifting purposes, to read books you already own (or are otherwise allowed to read, for example, because you checked it out from your library and have the right to read it for the next three weeks, or whatever) on a reader that doesn't support DRM-protected PDF.