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Originally Posted by Respigi
I want to thank everyone for replying altho` some of the contributions e.g. from susan cassidy and FizzyWater and statements like 13 out of 14 people know about DRM raises questions.
I (ignorant as I may be) knew nothing about DRMs . My local library was happy to make thousands of free ebooks available to me. There was also many free sites doing this. Now I find it is whispered about and not paying for all your boooks and their DRMs is like some antisocial misbehavior.
But I`m learning and love my Kobo
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If you are looking for free books, take a look at these sites:
http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://www.feedbooks.com/ (very good book layout)
Also, Amazon and Kobo, and possibly others, have a lot of free books. Those are the ones in public domain (no copyright anymore), or the ones given away by the author as advertisements for other books, often in a series.
Most copyrighted books have DRM; either Amazon's or Adobe's (most EPUB stores use this). There are DRM removal tools available that can be installed in the e-book library program called Calibre. If you do, DRM will be removed as soon as you import it into Calibre (after buying the book using the normal buying procedure; this does not work for protected books you may... 'find'... on the internet).
Of course there are also sellers that don't use DRM, even for copyrighted books. Baen and Tor Books are two of them.
The 'whispering' is caused because of the fact that in many countries DRM removal is illegal. MobileRead does not want to get into trouble and face the possibility to be sued and shut down due to providing direct instructions on how to remove DRM.
Thus, you will only find links to and references to someone known 'Apprentice Alf', and since some time, 'Apprentice Harper'. They are the maintainers of the DRM removal tools that plug into Calibre. (They don't come with Calibre by default, because Calibre needs to be available and downloadable in the countries where DRM removal is illegal.)
Here is everything we are allowed to tell you:
Kindle for PC
Adobe Digital Editions version 1.7.x or 2.x (NOT 3.x or 4.x)
Calibre
Apprentice Alf / "The Tools"
Apple DRM has not been cracked; avoid iBooks (edit: according to pwalker8, it's possible now. If it is, I don't know about it. Still, I wouldn't buy anything from Apple anyways.)
Install them and buy books. On importing them into Calibre, the DRM will be removed. Just HOW to install and configure the DRM-part is up to you to figure out. As explained above, we're not allowed to tell you that at this site. Google it
Good luck