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Originally Posted by brainycat
You will not be able to use AdobeDRM epubs, as the Adobe software that manages the key and decryption is only available for Windows and OSX.
You will not be able to decrypt DRM'd Mobi format books, as there are no readers for linux that will generate a reader ID key.
If you can get access to machines that support readers for those two formats, there are ways to unlock content in those formats for transfer to linux. The rules of this forum prohibit linking, but the techniques are easily located via google.
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Actually, you can use Adobe Digital Editions with Crossover Office and Mobipocket Reader with wine. The latter will generate a valid PID. Installing ADE is quite simple on Ubuntu at least. First install Crossover Chromium (Google it) and then track down the executable installer for ADE. On my install (Jaunty Jackelope) all I had to do was click on the executable and it installed. I was then able to register my computer with my Adobe ID. You will need to access to a windows computer with ADE installed and registered to your Adobe ID in order to authorize the reader, however. You only have to do this once. After that, whenever you need to download a DRMed EPub, open ADE, click on the url file that is downloaded to you desktop, and drag it on top of ADE. ADE will then download your EPub (or PDF). You can then use calibre to transfer it to your reader.
Luqman