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Old 09-15-2022, 01:45 AM   #8
Aleron Ives
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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
From what I've read, Linux IS a headache for deDRMing ebooks, because the programs needed for deDRMing have no Linux version.
Well, the DeDRM Calibre plugin works on any OS, since it's Python. Removing the DRM is easy: all you have to do is import the e-book into Calibre. The hard part is extracting the ADE encryption keys required for DeDRM to do its work.

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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
One solution would be to use your Windows 7 computer for deDRMing purposes and afterwards transfer the liberated books to your Linux PC.
I managed to get DeDRM to work on Windows 7, but I had to switch to 6.8.1. DeDRM 10.0.3 doesn't seem to work with Calibre 3.48. I'm pretty sure it's not possible to run Calibre 6 under Windows 7, so I'll probably have to use Linux to remove any semi-modern DRM schemes that version 6.8.1 can't handle.

Interestingly, the EPUB files produced by both versions are not the same; the files inside each ZIP/EPUB file are the same, but the ZIP containers are not. The compressed files seem to be stored in a different order for whatever reason.

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
I have my US address listed and just switched to the UK store and bought the book. No lying about my ZIP, no nothing.

Looking at my Kobo account, I have Country set as United Kingdom, but I have my real street and city info. ZIP and phone are blank.
I guess that's encouraging. I had to enter a ZIP code to buy a book with PayPal (but not a street address), so I suspect that entering a London postal code may be required to buy from the UK store with PayPal?

Here's another question: how does buying a series or e-book bundle work? Do you get the regular EPUB file for each book in the series, as if you'd bought each e-book separately, or do you get some kind of monster EPUB that has the contents of every book crammed into one file with a single table of contents?
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