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Old 04-28-2026, 03:57 PM   #151
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Originally Posted by nabsltd View Post
You can buy a book from Kobo, download the ACSM file, and read it with any Adobe-DRM compliant reader. That's a pretty low "wall" compared to Amazon.
About 70% of the books I download from Kobo come as a DRM free ePub which makes the wall something that a toddler could hop over.

In Canada, the options shown for a book seem to be:
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Download options: EPUB 2 (DRM-Free)
Download options: EPUB 2 (Adobe DRM)
Download options: EPUB 3 (DRM-Free)
Download options: EPUB 3 (Adobe DRM)
Rumour has it that in Europe, you also get a LCP DRM option for some books.
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