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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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
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Hey Dennis. I would say 90% of my books are purchased from Amazon. The rest might be from places like MR or that Gutenberg project or places like that. I haven't run into an Amazon book that's had DRM yet.
Well, at least at this stage I know I've got the ebooks on Calibre and a usb drive. (If Amazon should close down.
) Next up will be trying to set up that plug-in at Alf's. Do you happen to know if that will work retroactively on the books I already have on Calibre? And then when I transfer the books to a usb drive (from Calibre) they should be DRM-free (if they've been stripped of the DRM via Alf's thing, that is), right?
Thanks.