02-24-2020, 11:18 AM | #31 | |
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All my epub books I've bought are bought DRM free, either from an indie Publisher or Smashwords. I do buy Kindle ebooks from Amazon, not many, but some. Conversion of them is no problem with my Kindle serial number in the Calibre plug in. Nor will I waste disk space and reliability on dual booting Win10 & Linux. Win7 was the last MS sensible to dual boot. I do have OpenBox for virtual machines, but have no need for Win10. I just gave away an x86 Win 10 tablet/laptop, it was only used for PDFs and my new Android 10" tablet does that better. I do have some desktop machines and laptops left in the attic with Windows and my son has a Win10 desktop as a game console. He uses a Linux laptop for actual content. |
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02-24-2020, 11:26 AM | #32 | |
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As for DRM free ePub, you can also get them from Baen, Tor, and Star Trek ePub from Simon & Shuster. |
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02-24-2020, 11:41 AM | #33 |
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02-24-2020, 12:27 PM | #34 |
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Thank you all. Have been trying out the different sellers and have settled on Kobo for the moment. Appreciate the advice!
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02-24-2020, 01:45 PM | #36 | |
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Dual booting is so last century. VMs to run Windows simultaneously on Linux, or vice versa. Easy to copy the VM files to replacement computer, or revert if an update / virus / application breaks. VM snapshots, unlike Windows restore points, always work. I was installing, training, selling Windows stuff for fifteen years. Using it for nearly thirty years. I'm so glad I don't support computer users now. I have no difficulties at all with Linux since wiping the dual boot of Windows 7 from this laptop. Not lost a single hair. I'm happy for people to use Windows 10 as long as I don't have to sort it out. |
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02-24-2020, 03:23 PM | #37 | |
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02-24-2020, 04:24 PM | #38 |
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I've no idea, as I've never in over 10 years of eBooks, ever bought an ePub with DRM. All the ePubs I bought were DRM free. You don't need any application installed for the Kindle specific plug-in, just the serial number of the physical eink Kindle you bought the Amazon book for. Mobi or AZW files, not KFX, which work differently. Hence use Download to PC, not PC app on Amazon.
AFAIK, only with B&N do you need their Nook. You don't need any app for Amazon Kindle files downloaded for a real Kindle. I mostly read on a Kobo, but I've no idea how Kobo files work. Even when I did use Windows XP and then Windows 7 and briefly Windows 10, I never used the Sony / Amazon / Kobo apps to transfer files. I did look at the Kindle app on Windows and removed it as spyware. Also I removed the Andriod Kindle app and and instead used various 3rd party epub apps. I only looked at the Sony program on windows to see how it read back annotations, it's ghastly. So I read annotations from Kobo in Calibre using the Kobo Utilities. Originally in Windows, now only on Linux. I have a Nook Simple Touch to see how epubs look on it. Never installed any Nook applications, nor ever bought B&N books. |
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I think mostly the problem with B&N is the plug-in authors just aren't interested in solving it, since B&N is such a small slice now. |
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02-24-2020, 06:53 PM | #41 |
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The plugins need ADE to work. They don't work just automagically by themselves. The same way they need something to work with in the case of Kindle books (either Kindle for PC or the serial number of a physical Kindle).
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I think that once e-books became mainstream developers mostly lost interest. The DeDRM plugin is on life support these days. I have my doubts that it will make the transition to Python 3 that is planned for Calibre later this year.
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The same as the current Python2 branch, the standalone DeDRM tools are gone and won't be coming back. If I read some comments correctly, part of the reason for dropping the standalone DeDRM removal tools for Windows and Mac were due to issues where most would-be users showed an total inability to read and follow instructions in the various ReadMe files. My limited testing using the calibre 4.99.x betas showed that, for the most part, it seemed to work but there were some odd error messages. |
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