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Old 12-17-2020, 07:32 AM   #40
KevinH
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Sorry. That is never going to happen. Sigil is not an e-reader. FWIW, at least in the old days, calibre only ever provided the gui for Alf's tool. The old version of the tool had its own standalone gui and calibre was never needed. My guess is they dropped out the gui code. But taking the old gui code and converting it to epub3 would not be hard to do.

As for using Alf's tool on library books, something that you have not paid for, is a big bad in my opinion. Hope you are at least deleting *all* of your copies when the book has been read.


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Originally Posted by Ashjuk View Post
I borrow a lot of the books I read from my County Library.

Unfortunately they do not have many copies of each book (probably to keep the publishers happy) so it's a bit hit-and-miss as to when they are available. Because of this I tend to grab them when I can.

The problem is they have a limited time to read, and if I have just started to read another book by the time I get around to them they have expired.

To get around this I use the Aprentice Alf tools in Calibre to remove the time limit (I will probably get shot down in flames for admitting that) so that I don't have to worry about them expiring.

If Sigil were to have something that could do the same I would no reason to use Calibre - which I despise for its enforced file management regime.

So my suggestion is either something built-in or a plug-in to remove DRM from epubs.

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