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DNSB · 03-29-2024, 01:56 PM

And most of that mega-thread is from people who have not used calibre/DeDRM before.

Couple of nits you left out.

Older versions of K4PC/K4Mac will not download books published after 2023-Jan-02 so not much use in searching out older versions.
calibre updates a lot more often than DeDRM does.
Google can be very helpful if you craft your search queries properly. Though in my testing in the last couple of days has suggested that even 'remove ebook drm" gives a link near the top of the search results to Epubor titled Free EPUB DRM Removal. Google-fu counts.
Not all ebook formats and not all DRM schemes can be handled by DeDRM. How many times have we seen a post from someone who has downloaded ebooks using a application and wants to know how to remove the DRM?
Offering help other people with their issues with DeDRM helps to keep that knowledge fresh in your mind.
Compared to writing and compiling my old BIOS ROMs for CP/M, installing and using DeDRM is a lot easier. You want fun, try dealing with booting from a tape drive with a 2048 byte ROM while handling all the other needed tasks needed to fake a disk drive to allow running CP/M from a tape drive. When I switched to using PC clones, I also implemented using a tape drive as a random access device. Years later, LTO came along.

03-29-2024, 01:56 PM	#100
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,092 Karma: 169815798 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	And most of that mega-thread is from people who have not used calibre/DeDRM before. Couple of nits you left out. Older versions of K4PC/K4Mac will not download books published after 2023-Jan-02 so not much use in searching out older versions. calibre updates a lot more often than DeDRM does. Google can be very helpful if you craft your search queries properly. Though in my testing in the last couple of days has suggested that even 'remove ebook drm" gives a link near the top of the search results to Epubor titled Free EPUB DRM Removal. Google-fu counts. Not all ebook formats and not all DRM schemes can be handled by DeDRM. How many times have we seen a post from someone who has downloaded ebooks using a application and wants to know how to remove the DRM? Offering help other people with their issues with DeDRM helps to keep that knowledge fresh in your mind. Compared to writing and compiling my old BIOS ROMs for CP/M, installing and using DeDRM is a lot easier. You want fun, try dealing with booting from a tape drive with a 2048 byte ROM while handling all the other needed tasks needed to fake a disk drive to allow running CP/M from a tape drive. When I switched to using PC clones, I also implemented using a tape drive as a random access device. Years later, LTO came along.