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Originally Posted by rwe
i tried the above scripts, but i want to go back to base,
it didn't work (i use python version om my mac)
i got message:error: problem decrypting session key
i buy books and i want to use it on different readers supporting ADE
i don't want to liberate them completely, just use it on my own computers, my own readers.
when i import a book bought from B&N, so with a cc based drm key
and i import it into ADE, then i get the next message
Lee__Nothing_to_Lose__Jack.epub:
Licentie van document geldt voor een andere gebruikersaccount
licence of document is for another useraccount, does this mean i have to authorise ADE with the same user and pwd as used on B&N?
if i remember correctly, the ADE was based on a mailadress and given pwd
how can i make this work??
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It's me, epstewart, the guy who made
ADEPTKey Generator 2.0. I also blog at
the Viva eBooks! blog, and I wonder if you are not the Anonymous comment author that asked a similar question at my
iPhone: Reading Adobe/EPUB eBooks post. (For others: that post gives step-by-step instructions on how to make Adobe DRM protected eBooks readable on an iPhone, by stripping off the DRM as discussed in this thread.)
I am interested in helping you solve your problem. I am not so much of an expert that I can definitely tell you what to do to solve your problem, but let me make the following comments and let others who know more than I do add their expertise.
I believe the books you buy from B&N are
not Adobe DRM-encrypted. B&N (as far as I know) does not sell books that use Adobe Digital Editions Protection Technology (ADEPT), the DRM encryption methodology from Adobe which this forum thread is about. I think you are right to say that a B&N account that uses a credit card number and a password to buy books cannot be made to match up with the Adobe Digital Editions application, whose authorization/activation involves using an "Adobe ID" (typically your e-mail address) and a password.
Here is a way that you may be able to use to tell whether your book is in fact ADEPT-encrypted. Here's what you do. Copy the original e-book file, putting the new copy on your Desktop, so that you are not working with the original file. (If you option-drag the file to the Desktop, you'll get a new copy of the file on the Desktop.) Then change the filename extension of the
copied file on the Desktop from whatever it was originally to
.zip. You can do that by doing Get Info on the copied file on the Desktop (shortcut: command-I) and editing the extension in the Name & Extension field. You will then click "Use .zip" in the dialog box that comes up to confirm your intention. Also, still in the Get Info window, set "Open with:" to the Mac's
Archive Utility. (Do not click on "Change All ... " unless you want any double-clicked ZIP archive to use this utility.) Now close the Get Info window.
Once you have the .zip extension on the copied file and have the file set to open in Archive Utility, double-click the file. You should see the ZIP file expand into a new folder on your Desktop. The new folder's name reflects the name of your book. Open that folder. In it should be a
META-INF folder. Open it. In the
META-INF folder should be a file called
rights.xml. Open it in
TextEdit (best way: drag its icon to the
TextEdit icon on the dock). The very first line of the
rights.xml file should look something like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?><adept:rights xmlns:adept="http://ns.adobe.com/adept"><licenseToken xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/adept">
If it looks nothing like that, then almost certainly your book is not ADEPT-encrypted!
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Also, rwe, I do not quite understand why you want a B&N e-book to be readable in different readers supporting ADE, anyway. I find that B&N e-books work in eReader, for example, which you can get as a free download for your computer or for your iPhone or iPod Touch by clicking
here and then clicking on Get eReader Software. B&N offers its own eReader software
here
Plus, you can go
here to download the Stanza app for computers and/or iPhone/iPod Touch. It has the ability to transfer DRM-protected eReader books (which yours from B&N may be; does it have a .pdb filename extension in the Finder?) from the desktop version of Stanza (which cannot actually read the books) to the iPhone/iPod version (which can). See
this FAQ.
I hope this helps ...
Eric