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notsure · 05-24-2009, 10:01 AM

I'm a little confused (more so than my normal confused state) about something and I'm wondering if someone might be able to explain what's going on.

So this morning, thanks to this wonderful forum, I noticed that BoB had a free Sherlock Holmes book. Now, I'm a linux user and since they don't (currently) have an ADE version available for linux I simply downloaded the book and it saved on my system as an .epub file. Because I assumed this book had DRM on it, I never expected to read it anywhere but I'm new to ebooks wanting to experiment and free was the right price. :-)

When I added the book to calibre, I can read it there. This was unexpected.
When I transfered it to my Sony 505 I noticed I cannot read it there. This was expected.
Using calibre to convert returns an error that the book contains DRM and cannot be converted. This was also expected.

So, can anyone explain why I can read this book directly on Calibre from my linux machine?

Thanks!

05-24-2009, 10:01 AM	#1
notsure Zealot Posts: 123 Karma: 76 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505, PRS-350	ePub Confusion I'm a little confused (more so than my normal confused state) about something and I'm wondering if someone might be able to explain what's going on. So this morning, thanks to this wonderful forum, I noticed that BoB had a free Sherlock Holmes book. Now, I'm a linux user and since they don't (currently) have an ADE version available for linux I simply downloaded the book and it saved on my system as an .epub file. Because I assumed this book had DRM on it, I never expected to read it anywhere but I'm new to ebooks wanting to experiment and free was the right price. :-) When I added the book to calibre, I can read it there. This was unexpected. When I transfered it to my Sony 505 I noticed I cannot read it there. This was expected. Using calibre to convert returns an error that the book contains DRM and cannot be converted. This was also expected. So, can anyone explain why I can read this book directly on Calibre from my linux machine? Thanks!