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Old 03-14-2026, 11:44 AM   #1390
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
But there's now a neat plugin for calibre that does the downloading for you, so you can just drag the .acsm file onto calibre, and the plugin will download the book and add it to your calibre library.

The ACSM Input plugin can be found here: ACSM Input

The only official release is 0.0.16, but I strongly recommend using the 1.0 release which can be found for download in this post in that thread. The calibre-plugin.zip file.

If you also have DeDRM installed, after the ACSM Input plugin has downloaded the book, DeDRM will remove the DRM before it's added to your calibre library.
I am very confused. I've been adding acsms to Calibre directly and it downloads and DeDRMs via a single plugin, DeDRM. What is the acsm-input plugin *adding* that I'd want it? Does it not need an Adobe Digital Editions key? Does it grab more metadata/better cover?

I fire up Calibre, click "add book" in the top left, select the acsm. It imports the book as ePub with DRM stripped. I have metadata, cover, etc. There's even a checkbox in the DeDRM setup that removes the acsm file after a successful import, so I don't have to clean up.
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