Thread: Managing Amazon (DRM) and non-Amazon books
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Old 08-04-2014, 09:29 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
Kindle DRM is device/app specific. If you want to read on your device, you will either need to DeDRM or download via your device (that you want to read on).
Ugh. That's a wrinkle, though obvious in hindsight. It makes me question my whole idea of managing still-DRMed books. (Does anyone do this?)

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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
calibre leaves the file alone, with the current metadata intact, and stores its own metadata in the db -- however, when sending to device, that metadata gets embedded within the book. This is not a problem with DRM books, as only the ebook resources are encrypted, not the metadata.
So calibre can read and input the metadata as downloaded?
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