Is it easy to remove DRM protection? - Page 19

Starko · 01-14-2011, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by speedlever

Do you have a free ebook that illustrates this issue? I'd like to try it on my setup.

Here is one of free books - The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Sleep Disorders

I have tried 7 other books from Essential Guides from Kaplan and all of them have this problem - when you use Mobi deDRM plugin in Calibre, your "liberated" book has wide left margin.

pdurrant · 01-14-2011, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Starko

Here is one of free books - The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Sleep Disorders

I have tried 7 other books from Essential Guides from Kaplan and all of them have this problem - when you use Mobi deDRM plugin in Calibre, your "liberated" book has wide left margin.

This must be something to do with the original markup of the book, since the dedrm process doesn't change any of the text of the book at all, apart from removing the encryption.

Mortis · 01-14-2011, 04:17 PM

Thought this might be relevant in this thread check out Gizmodo, they have an article talking about this very subject and the Kindle in particular.

[Direct links to DRM removal are not allowed - Moderator]

I'll let you form your own opinions.

abookreader · 01-14-2011, 04:31 PM

kind of surprised that their info is so outdated and all their links seem to be gone already.

I wonder if Amazon will issue a take-down notice to them though.

Mortis · 01-14-2011, 04:43 PM

The coincidence was what made me post it really

I just finished looking at it, I don't use a Kindle so, I admit I didn't read the entire article, my bad.

This is Gizmodo we are talking about, they are not the New York Times

mark1529 · 01-16-2011, 05:02 PM

hello folks i have been inside and out of this thread all afternoon
i have a epub file with drm and for the life of me i can't get it to work with calibre,it still shows the drm
am i doing something wrong??
help please??

DiapDealer · 01-16-2011, 05:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mark1529

i have a epub file with drm a friend wanted to share with me and for the life of me i can't get it to work with calibre,it still shows the drm
am i doing something wrong??

**makes a very loud buzzer noise**

I'd just like to mention that the developers of these plugins didn't intend them to be used so friends could "share" ebooks. They were meant to be used on ebooks that you, yourself, purchased (or licensed, I won't quibble).

FF2 · 01-16-2011, 05:49 PM

You will have to visit Apprentice Alf's blog - which apparently has been tidied up for easier reading. I guess he de-drm-ed the drm-ing info to make it more like plain text! Oh, and if I am reading into your post correctly, the drm-ing steps might be necessarily performed on the computer that originally held the epub text and its reader.

Oh, I'll adopt the thread that came in while posting my reply!!! ***buzzzzzzz***

mark1529 · 01-16-2011, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

**makes a very loud buzzer noise**

I'd just like to mention that the developers of these plugins didn't intend them to be used so friends could "share" ebooks. They were meant to be used on ebooks that you, yourself, purchased (or licensed, I won't quibble).

oh pardon me i had the game on and didn't realize

DiapDealer · 01-16-2011, 06:23 PM

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oh pardon me i had the game on and didn't realize

It may seem like my post was a light-hearted attempt to get you to word your request a little differently, but I assure you, it wasn't. Please don't use these tools on ebooks that you didn't reimburse the author/publisher for.

pdurrant · 01-16-2011, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Please don't use these tools on ebooks that you didn't reimburse the author/publisher for.

Concur. There are libraries if you can't afford to buy at the moment.

zeppo · 01-16-2011, 10:49 PM

So I am trying to decide whether a Kindle will be worth it to me, and I am finding a lot of the books I was specifically looking forward to reading on the Kindle are not available.

For instance, at Kobo I can get:

http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/War-A...XHw/page1.html

but I can't get this Briggs translation of War and Peace at Amazon (and don't bother with any link showing the Briggs version at Kindlebooks-- it looks like it should be Briggs, it describes it as Briggs, but the ultimate download is a Maude translation... fortunately a *free* Maude translation.)

Anyway, would I be able to buy this $11 kobo book and convert it to read on my Kindle with navigation features intact?

wallcraft · 01-16-2011, 11:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeppo

Anyway, would I be able to buy this $11 kobo book and convert it to read on my Kindle with navigation features intact?

Yes. If the ePub has a multi-level TOC it will be flattened for MOBI, but it will still be there.

KevinH · 01-18-2011, 09:36 AM

Hi All,

Given Alf's decision to retire, you may want to grab the latest and greatest version of the just released tools_v3.2.zip as I think some of the other developers there are wondering about what they should do as well and they decided to get what they have out there so that people have it if they need it.

speedlever · 01-18-2011, 09:39 AM

Alf retire?

Say it isn't so!

Edit: the only change I saw in tools 3.2 was in K4mobiDeDRM which went from 1.9 to 2.1. Any other changes? I assume that's the only plug-in that needs to be updated.

01-14-2011, 04:17 PM	#273
Mortis Canucklehead in Malaysia Posts: 1,633 Karma: 3127774 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Device: iPhone, Kindle	Thought this might be relevant in this thread check out Gizmodo, they have an article talking about this very subject and the Kindle in particular. [Direct links to DRM removal are not allowed - Moderator] I'll let you form your own opinions. Last edited by Dr. Drib; 01-17-2011 at 10:05 AM.

01-16-2011, 05:02 PM	#276
mark1529 Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: kindle	hello folks i have been inside and out of this thread all afternoon i have a epub file with drm and for the life of me i can't get it to work with calibre,it still shows the drm am i doing something wrong?? help please?? Last edited by mark1529; 01-16-2011 at 06:03 PM.

01-18-2011, 09:39 AM	#285
speedlever Fanatic Posts: 592 Karma: 138200 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: NC, USA Device: PW2014, PW2012, iPad Pro	Alf retire? Say it isn't so! Edit: the only change I saw in tools 3.2 was in K4mobiDeDRM which went from 1.9 to 2.1. Any other changes? I assume that's the only plug-in that needs to be updated. Last edited by speedlever; 01-18-2011 at 09:45 AM.

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abookreader Wizard Posts: 1,516 Karma: 2567610 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: Kindles - Keyboard, Fire, 2-US, iPhone, iPAD	kind of surprised that their info is so outdated and all their links seem to be gone already. I wonder if Amazon will issue a take-down notice to them though.

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Mortis Canucklehead in Malaysia Posts: 1,633 Karma: 3127774 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Device: iPhone, Kindle	The coincidence was what made me post it really I just finished looking at it, I don't use a Kindle so, I admit I didn't read the entire article, my bad. This is Gizmodo we are talking about, they are not the New York Times

01-16-2011, 05:49 PM	#278
FF2 Wizard Posts: 1,105 Karma: 1025784 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: WiFi Kindle3	You will have to visit Apprentice Alf's blog - which apparently has been tidied up for easier reading. I guess he de-drm-ed the drm-ing info to make it more like plain text! Oh, and if I am reading into your post correctly, the drm-ing steps might be necessarily performed on the computer that originally held the epub text and its reader. Oh, I'll adopt the thread that came in while posting my reply!!! *buzzzzzzz*

01-16-2011, 10:49 PM	#282
zeppo Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 26 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: none	So I am trying to decide whether a Kindle will be worth it to me, and I am finding a lot of the books I was specifically looking forward to reading on the Kindle are not available. For instance, at Kobo I can get: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/War-A...XHw/page1.html but I can't get this Briggs translation of War and Peace at Amazon (and don't bother with any link showing the Briggs version at Kindlebooks-- it looks like it should be Briggs, it describes it as Briggs, but the ultimate download is a Maude translation... fortunately a free Maude translation.) Anyway, would I be able to buy this $11 kobo book and convert it to read on my Kindle with navigation features intact?

01-18-2011, 09:36 AM	#284
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,072 Karma: 6361556 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Hi All, Given Alf's decision to retire, you may want to grab the latest and greatest version of the just released tools_v3.2.zip as I think some of the other developers there are wondering about what they should do as well and they decided to get what they have out there so that people have it if they need it.