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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
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.
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How would you know?
If you bought the books from Amazon, and read them on a Kindle or with a Kindle app that has been registered with Amazon, they are simply opened and displayed. The fact that they
are encumbered with DRM should not be obvious.
You would need to try reading some with something like FBReader (which does not support DRM)
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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?
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Setting it up is trivial. You just need to drop the plugins into the Calibre plugin directory.
I'm fairly sure there's an option in Calibre to strip DRM after the fact if the plugins are installed. Since I don't
get books with DRM, I haven't had cause to try.
And let's be clear about how Calibre works.
I keep my eBooks in a Calibre maintained library on the USB drive. I wanted the storage to not be tied to a specific machine. The eBook library is on a 32GB USB thumbdrive. I actually have two installations of Calibre itself: I have the 64 bit version installed on my desktop under Win7 Pro, and the Portable version installed on the thumbdrive, so I can run Calibre from there if I'm plugging the drive into a different device like my netbook.
The actual books are files in a Calibre maintained directory structure on the thumbdrive. The metadata is stored in a Calibre created and maintained SQLite database, and individual entries point to the files on the thumbdrive.
My primary reader device is an Android tablet. I put books on the tablet with Calibre. I plug the tablet into my computer via a MicroUSB cable. The tablet detects it's been plugged into a host and offers to turn on USB storage. Doing so unmounts the microSD card in the tablet, and the Win7 host sees the table as two removeable drives, with the Calibre library on the second. Connect to Folder in Calibre establishes connection with the device. Send to Device copies the selected volumes from the Calibre Library to the MicroSD card on the tablet.
When I turn off USB Storage on the tablet, the external card is mounted again, and the books are available for reading.
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Dennis