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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Hey, I've just been setting up all my Kindle ebooks onto Calibre and uploading them to Google Drive. There's all this stuff about stripping the DRM but I don't even know if the ebooks I have DRM. How can you tell in Linux? Somebody said look at Properties but all my ebooks (in Properties) say 'read and write'. Does that mean that they are not DRM? And if they were DRM, would I have been able to get as far along in the process without something stopping me?
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Where did you
get the Kindle books? If you
bought them from Amazon, whether they will be encumbered with DRM is a publisher option. Some do, and some don't. If they come from other sources, they probably aren't DRM ridden.
As eschwartz mentioned, if the appropriate third-party plugins are installed, Calibre can strip DRM. They are not provided with Calibre because simply having them is illegal in some jurisdictions.
The Linux Properties are those for the
file containing the eBook. Your userid has permission to read and write it. Whether your eBook viewer can successfully open, decrypt, and
display the eBook content is something that happens at the applications level. Linux neither knows nor cares.
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Dennis