Finally able to support authors

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

For a frightening scary moment I thought you meant paper tape.

That does work for read only or erase random access with paper tape.

There was paper tape on computers (and even to send messages from keyboard 20 years earlier) from the 1940s. Machine tools still were using paper tape after floppy drives came out.

Was it a 1/2" wide magnetic tape on a reel to reel machine. For cartridges, maybe Travan was worst. No, The stringy microdrive on the Sinclair QL was worst.

I remember using paper tape to load the boot loaded for the tape that you then loaded from there.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Quoth

For a frightening scary moment I thought you meant paper tape.

That does work for read only or erase random access with paper tape.

There was paper tape on computers (and even to send messages from keyboard 20 years earlier) from the 1940s. Machine tools still were using paper tape after floppy drives came out.

Was it a 1/2" wide magnetic tape on a reel to reel machine. For cartridges, maybe Travan was worst. No, The stringy microdrive on the Sinclair QL was worst.

My first mass storage device was a TTY-33 I was given with the Data General Nova. Lubricating instructions: remove 4 parts and drop the rest of the machine into a barrel of oil for an hour, let drain, re-install parts and use.

It was an old 1/2" tape drive. A lot faster and more reliable than the Tarbell interface to a cassette tape I had been using. Sorry but at this distance in time, I can't remember who actually made the drive. I picked it up at a bankruptcy auction along with a box of tapes and used it for about 6 years before it died.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Because when I type remove drm with no quotes into Google, one of the top links I get is to a thread here titled How easy is it to remove DRM from an ebooks.com ePub?

The link to NoDRM is in that thread. It's in the second post as I posted it.

Yep. Then they come here looking for specific help, and we say "go here". Then they come back here with questions and we turn them away with "go back to where you downloaded them from" (or run the risk of becoming too specific for MR's rules with responses).

There is nothing easy about finding the particulars for removing drm from ebooks for free for the average person: here, there, or anywhere. Never has been; never will be. The endless comments section on a post on The DarkReverser's Blog has become the endless thread here at MobileRead, has become the endless commit log on three different github repositories. To suggest it's become "easy" is disingenuous.

[twowheels]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Yep. Then they come here looking for specific help, and we say "go here". Then they come back here with questions and we turn them away with "go back to where you downloaded them from" (or run the risk of becoming too specific for MR's rules with responses).

To be honest, I'm surprised how much the forum allows now -- years ago it feels like the topic was entirely taboo; people walk much closer to the line than they did 10+ years ago.

[Aleron Ives]

This thread makes me so happy that Kobo exists so I don't have to keep track of all the Amazon DRM drama.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

This thread makes me so happy that Kobo exists so I don't have to keep track of all the Amazon DRM drama.

I gave up on Kindle entirely, tbh. I see "Kindle Unlimited" on a Goodreads page and immediately click out. (Also, Goodreads is basically just an Amazon advertising platform at this point - why else would they have removed the Kobo Books links after being bought out?)

[leebase]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Just a minor correction - it doesn't have to be an old Kindle. ANY eink Kindle is suitable for this, even the most recent.

I haven't found that to be true. For me, I have to use the first kindle paper white I bought and long since have given it to my daughter. My new one didn't work. Now, perhaps it's supposed to and I just FUBAR'd it when I tried, but going back to the older kindle worked and who knows why I, the same person, got one working and the other not.

[leebase]

Originally Posted by DNSB

[*]Compared to writing and compiling my old BIOS ROMs for CP/M, installing and using DeDRM is a lot easier. You want fun, try dealing with booting from a tape drive with a 2048 byte ROM while handling all the other needed tasks needed to fake a disk drive to allow running CP/M from a tape drive. When I switched to using PC clones, I also implemented using a tape drive as a random access device. Years later, LTO came along.[/list]

Yep. I do a lot of hard technical stuff. But nobody says "oh, that's easy". But so many here are constitutionally married to "it's easy" when I KNOW it's not.

[leebase]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

There is nothing easy about finding the particulars for removing drm from ebooks for free for the average person: here, there, or anywhere. Never has been; never will be. The endless comments section on a post on The DarkReverser's Blog has become the endless thread here at MobileRead, has become the endless commit log on three different github repositories. To suggest it's become "easy" is disingenuous.

<standing ovation>!

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by leebase

I haven't found that to be true. For me, I have to use the first kindle paper white I bought and long since have given it to my daughter. My new one didn't work. Now, perhaps it's supposed to and I just FUBAR'd it when I tried, but going back to the older kindle worked and who knows why I, the same person, got one working and the other not.

Which Kindle was the new one that didn't work? My Oasis 3 from 2019 worked.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

This thread makes me so happy that Kobo exists so I don't have to keep track of all the Amazon DRM drama.

I still buy occasional exclusives from Amazon, although I haven't used a Kindle for more than 2 years.

[Kindleing]

Originally Posted by leebase

I haven't found that to be true. For me, I have to use the first kindle paper white I bought and long since have given it to my daughter. My new one didn't work. Now, perhaps it's supposed to and I just FUBAR'd it when I tried, but going back to the older kindle worked and who knows why I, the same person, got one working and the other not.

I have never had download and transfer NOT work for newer Kindles unless it was one of the few restricted books, like a textbook.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by leebase

I haven't found that to be true. For me, I have to use the first kindle paper white I bought and long since have given it to my daughter. My new one didn't work. Now, perhaps it's supposed to and I just FUBAR'd it when I tried, but going back to the older kindle worked and who knows why I, the same person, got one working and the other not.

It has to be registered to the account you are downloading from AND the ID (serial number) copied & pasted from "My Devices" into the plugin. Reading it off the device is error prone.

Never had any difficulty.

[leebase]

Originally Posted by Quoth

It has to be registered to the account you are downloading from AND the ID (serial number) copied & pasted from "My Devices" into the plugin. Reading it off the device is error prone.

Never had any difficulty.

It could very well have been user error. Which is easy given the state of the documentation.

[John F]

Originally Posted by leebase

It could very well have been user error. Which is easy given the state of the documentation.

I just got a Paperwhite 3, followed Quoth's documentation above, and was able to remove DRM from a Amazon First Reads ebook (I assume it had DRM).