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Old 12-04-2014, 10:09 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe View Post
@apopagasm: A location pointer in a DRM'd mobi7/mobi8 basically points to word-soup: encrypted content. Hence: useless.

And I'm not sure they're actually stable (i.e., if you by chance have a decrypted copy of the book, will the pointer from the DRM version actually point to the right place in the decrypted version (or vice versa)? Not quite sure, you'd have to check with the Mobi gurus in the appropriate subforum).
I believe everything is done by decrypting the book on the fly.

The pointer is calculated based on file offsets on the content passed to the actual book reader, whether that came directly from the book file, or was decrypted.
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