How to remove DRM from booklive.jp ebooks

[karyuudo]

Hey everyone,

I'm a complete newbie to ebooks, so please forgive me. I recently purchased an ebook on booklive.jp and I've tried to remove the DRM from it using Calibre. However, it doesn't seem to be working. Does anyone know if it is indeed possible to do this? I don't want to purchase any other books from them unless I can remove the DRM.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.
Cheers!

[gweeks]

I'd go to Apprentice Alf's blog and ask there. You won't get an answer here.

https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/

Greg

[karyuudo]

Originally Posted by gweeks

I'd go to Apprentice Alf's blog and ask there. You won't get an answer here.

https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/

Greg

Thanks very much!

[desioner]

Originally Posted by gweeks

I'd go to Apprentice Alf's blog and ask there. You won't get an answer here.
https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/
Greg

Interesting… not only am I not alone, seems I'm late to the party too. Is there any information here about Calibre being able to read encrypted books. It seems to me that all booklive books are encrypted epub formats. That are only readable by their native reader app, which of course is garbage like most others.
Guess the search continues!

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by desioner

Interesting… not only am I not alone, seems I'm late to the party too. Is there any information here about Calibre being able to read encrypted books. It seems to me that all booklive books are encrypted epub formats. That are only readable by their native reader app, which of course is garbage like most others.
Guess the search continues!

Ask on the blog linked.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by desioner

Is there any information here about Calibre being able to read encrypted books.

It can't.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by desioner

Interesting… not only am I not alone, seems I'm late to the party too. Is there any information here about Calibre being able to read encrypted books. It seems to me that all booklive books are encrypted epub formats. That are only readable by their native reader app, which of course is garbage like most others.
Guess the search continues!

Hi. Welcome to Mobileread.

[EDITED]

Unfortunately - as pointed out by the Moderator above - it can't, so I've deleted that erroneous information I posted a few minutes ago.

However, rather than simply deleting my post, I would like to extend a welcome to you.

And...have fun!


Don
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[xyzzy_foo]

Well, it is now possible to remove BookLive!'s DRM for fixed-layout EPUBs, but this is still not the case for reflowable ones.

However, another eBook store that uses similar DRM technology has already been cracked, and the technical information has been made public, so it would likely be simple for anyone who decides to tackle it.

[Quoth]

Calibre is a book management tool, including conversion, editing and viewing. It doesn't read encrypted content or remove DRM. Anyone can create plug-ins for different kinds of things, including DRM removal, just like people can create extensions for a Web Browser, though Google polices ones for Chrome.

NoDRM on Git produces a plug-in.

[xyzzy_foo]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Calibre is a book management tool, including conversion, editing and viewing. It doesn't read encrypted content or remove DRM. Anyone can create plug-ins for different kinds of things, including DRM removal, just like people can create extensions for a Web Browser, though Google polices ones for Chrome.

NoDRM on Git produces a plug-in.

The only reason calibre can remove DRM is because of the DeDRM plugin (and its accompanying Obok), which doesn't support Japan's unique eBook stores at all. The DRM removal solutions for those stores are either independent or belong to Epubor. calibre has nothing to do with it.

[multitasker9000]

Originally Posted by xyzzy_foo

Well, it is now possible to remove BookLive!'s DRM for fixed-layout EPUBs, but this is still not the case for reflowable ones.

This is my exact predicament! Could you please tell me the name of the tool that does this?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by xyzzy_foo

The only reason calibre can remove DRM is because of the DeDRM plugin (and its accompanying Obok), which doesn't support Japan's unique eBook stores at all. The DRM removal solutions for those stores are either independent or belong to Epubor. calibre has nothing to do with it.

You don't actually need Obok. You just download the .acsm file, pop it into calibre and out comes a DRM free ePub.

You need ASCM Input and DeDRM. So much easier then using Obok.

[salamanderjuice]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You don't actually need Obok. You just download the .acsm file, pop it into calibre and out comes a DRM free ePub.

You need ASCM Input and DeDRM. So much easier then using Obok.

Kobo Japan/Rakuten Books doesn't give ASCM downloads. Probably at least partly because the Kobo Adobe reader can't do Japanese books properly.

Obok is also insanely easy and can remove DRM from books downloaded on the Kobo.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by salamanderjuice

Kobo Japan/Rakuten Books doesn't give ASCM downloads. Probably at least partly because the Kobo Adobe reader can't do Japanese books properly.

That was the original reason for Kobo adopting the ACCESS renderer and it's descendants to allow Japanese books to be read with half decent layout/typography.

Originally Posted by salamanderjuice

Obok is also insanely easy and can remove DRM from books downloaded on the Kobo.

As a problem for the future, OBOK will not import DRMmed ebooks from a Kobo device on v6 firmware.

[salamanderjuice]

Originally Posted by DNSB

That was the original reason for Kobo adopting the ACCESS renderer and it's descendants to allow Japanese books to be read with half decent layout/typography.



As a problem for the future, OBOK will not import DRMmed ebooks from a Kobo device on v6 firmware.

Do we know why that is?