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GeoffC · 05-03-2009, 04:46 AM

There are many, many books produced without DRM - a good many of them are here - and all DRM free.

All DRM is, is a procedure that publishers use to attempt to prevent a purchased book being read by a device other than which the book was registered to using the PID. A paperback book can be passed from person to person, an ebook with DRM cannot. Stripping DRM (where legal) from a book should not materially alter the content (though the conversion program may do something).

A goodly number of ebooks appear to be 'straight' OCR copies of paper versions, marred to a large extent by not being proof-read and full of mistakes...

05-03-2009, 04:46 AM	#3
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	There are many, many books produced without DRM - a good many of them are here - and all DRM free. All DRM is, is a procedure that publishers use to attempt to prevent a purchased book being read by a device other than which the book was registered to using the PID. A paperback book can be passed from person to person, an ebook with DRM cannot. Stripping DRM (where legal) from a book should not materially alter the content (though the conversion program may do something). A goodly number of ebooks appear to be 'straight' OCR copies of paper versions, marred to a large extent by not being proof-read and full of mistakes...