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Originally Posted by Katsunami
using ADE 3.x or newer might force the download of books using the new Adobe DRM, making the books unusable with older devices.
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See, this is why encryption is bad. It's not just "older" devices, it's every other device that doesn't support given DRM. That's my problem.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
You could also buy books from non-Kobo EPUB stores.
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I used to use Sony eBook Store as they didn't check the CC's country of origin. Kobo is doing wonderful job of bringing many works untranslated in many countries, which are usually US-only. I like it when the book that I want is easily obtainable, without loops and for a reasonable price. Sadly, that is the only real option for me.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
In the Netherlands, for example, using watermarks is the default for protecting ebooks. (Even so, using search and replace/regular expressions, they are easy to remove.)
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See, I don't understand why you would bother to remove watermarking, it's not like it prevents you to use the content. My tools are only for decrypting the stuff, I leave all the account information intact (although, for Kobo specifically, all of their kepubs that I have, are generic).
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
My long-term strategy is to remove DRM as soon as possible after buying them. And good backups of the DRM-free copies.
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I think everyone does this. The problem is, you can't buy all of the future books right now, and once Kobo will start changing their scheme every other day, it will be very hard for consumers to make unencrypted backups. Sure, I can try to be bothered once in a while, but I can only do so much (I have no skills to reverse-engineer any meaningful scheme), and it's fun to do it once or twice. Then you'll have to wait for anyone to be bothered
and skilled enough to reproduce it (and then it will be obsolete in a few weeks/months again).
And Kobo, using a private scheme, can change it as often as they desire. And they already starting to obfuscate the code, and throw in some easy traps. But if anything, this is just fun games right now. The advantage is on their side, by far.