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Old 05-12-2025, 05:08 PM   #2866
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For now, you can consider this a backup plan in case Rakuten Kobo discontinues ADEPT DRM.
Looking at the v5 firmware for the new tolino ereaders, they have retained RMSDK to allow for ADEPT DRM. Given the use of ADEPT DRM by libraries and other retailers, I find it highly doubtful that Kobo will discontinue the use of ADEPT DRM in the near future. One other thing to note is that the majority of the books I've purchased from Kobo are DRM free (in my library, I have 178 Kobo books with DRM and 763 without).
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Old 05-12-2025, 05:31 PM   #2867
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Until Rakuten actually does what you suggest may happen: "...Kobo could upgrade its DRM at any point in the future...", then I won't worry about it. And not pay some company for something that already exists.

Your crystal ball perhaps needs some Windex...until then, the future is actually...in the future.

YMMV, of course.
Kobo did remove ASCM download from their website, but only in Japan, and its been over year since it happened.
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Old 05-12-2025, 05:33 PM   #2868
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Looking at the v5 firmware for the new tolino ereaders, they have retained RMSDK to allow for ADEPT DRM. Given the use of ADEPT DRM by libraries and other retailers, I find it highly doubtful that Kobo will discontinue the use of ADEPT DRM in the near future. One other thing to note is that the majority of the books I've purchased from Kobo are DRM free (in my library, I have 178 Kobo books with DRM and 763 without).
DRM-free is actually DRM-free too, unlike Amazon.
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DRM-free is actually DRM-free too, unlike Amazon.
Which is the main reason that Kobo has been getting my money lately instead of Amazon.
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BookFab Kindle Converter has not been released. It is supposed to be released next week:

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Actually: it has been released. I bought BookFab a few days ago, the app downloaded without any ebook conversion option. Today it updated to include a converter option, so I tried it out on a book I got on Amazon First Reads at the beginning of May.

It worked. The process was a little confusing but simple and resulted in a epub. The epub size is much bigger than the epub that I got from downloading the book to one of my older Kindles, transferring to Calibre and using KFX input to convert.

I haven't tried to look at the differences.

FWIW: the BookFab converter provides an interesting message before it begins the download: it says that "download has now been authorized".
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Old 05-12-2025, 06:02 PM   #2871
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The epub size is much bigger than the epub that I got from downloading the book to one of my older Kindles, transferring to Calibre and using KFX input to convert.
Looking at the individual files, the main size difference is the images--presumably because the version transferred from a physical kindle has smaller, black and white, images. Minor differences appear to come from the Calibre conversion pipeline.

The other major difference is that BookFab produces an EPUB3 ebook while the Calibre route produces EPUB2.
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Actually: it has been released. I bought BookFab a few days ago, the app downloaded without any ebook conversion option. Today it updated to include a converter option, so I tried it out on a book I got on Amazon First Reads at the beginning of May.

It worked. The process was a little confusing but simple and resulted in a epub. The epub size is much bigger than the epub that I got from downloading the book to one of my older Kindles, transferring to Calibre and using KFX input to convert.

I haven't tried to look at the differences.

FWIW: the BookFab converter provides an interesting message before it begins the download: it says that "download has now been authorized".
I couldn't workout how to convert a book to see if the DRM would be removed at first, but then I thought I had worked out how to do it, but the download failed. Oh well.
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Old 05-12-2025, 07:27 PM   #2873
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I couldn't workout how to convert a book to see if the DRM would be removed at first, but then I thought I had worked out how to do it, but the download failed. Oh well.
There are instructions at the bottom the this page. If you follow them, even if you fail, the book will be listed in the programs "Download" list and you can download from there.
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Old 05-12-2025, 09:07 PM   #2874
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Actually: it has been released. I bought BookFab a few days ago, the app downloaded without any ebook conversion option. Today it updated to include a converter option, so I tried it out on a book I got on Amazon First Reads at the beginning of May.

It worked. The process was a little confusing but simple and resulted in a epub. The epub size is much bigger than the epub that I got from downloading the book to one of my older Kindles, transferring to Calibre and using KFX input to convert.

I haven't tried to look at the differences.

FWIW: the BookFab converter provides an interesting message before it begins the download: it says that "download has now been authorized".
Good. Then that specific issue has been settled. Thank you.
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Old 05-13-2025, 01:55 AM   #2875
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I couldn't workout how to convert a book to see if the DRM would be removed at first, but then I thought I had worked out how to do it, but the download failed. Oh well.
2 things. kindle for pc needs to be opened when converting. I think it only works with version 2 and upwards. so 2.3 or 2.4 . seems like a beta software. it did work for me and was quick. not sure why it needs 40 gig yet. comes in color and is smaller then kindle version.
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I'm confused why you're worrying about future changes by Amazon / Kobo / etc. Don't you continuously remove the DRM from your books? And if any vendor changes their DRM-scheme, that maybe cannot defeated anymore, I don't care because my existing books are already fine, and I can go to any other vendor that still uses older DRM-schemes, or don't use DRM in the first place.
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You mean KFX Input. KFX Output is for conversion to KFX.
Thanks for catching the mistake.
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mine converted straight to epub. . dont remember seeing other options.
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New! BookFab 1.2.0.0 is out (May 12, 2025)

this post went up yesterday - it has a pdf download for a fuller explanation

it makes constant reference to dvd v13 but not bookfab as far as i can tell

this page went up today
https://www.openpr.com/news/4011879/...bookfab-kindle
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