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Old 04-25-2010, 09:21 PM   #166
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I did a quick lookup of The Lost Symbol on http://ebooks.addall.com and they only listed pdb's available from B&N. I don't know how reliable that is, but you should be able to get the sample as an epub if it's available. If not, you'll get stuck with a pdb. Here's hoping they convert the rest of their library soon.
Ah! Great idea! I never thought to ebooks.addall it for checking ebook type from a seller. I always just went price/availability.

Turns out they show I, Robot (previously recommended) and Oprah: A Liography (brand new book) as PDB also.

Once again, Anyone who has a good ePUB they recommend from B&N, feel free to post here or PM me.

I'm guessing, as previously suggested, that you only receive an ePUB if you have a Nook. *shrug*

And I realize this is sounding off-topic, but all this is to test decryption of ePUB from B&N so I can start using them as a purchase source for my Sony Reader! So decidedly on topic, since you need a test case in order to test!

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Old 04-26-2010, 10:42 PM   #167
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If the epub is available, you should be able to get it without a Nook, but only by using the Window's version of the B&N software. That's how I've been checking to see if any of my pdb ebooks have been updated to epub (so far none , but I only have two of them). All of the ebooks I've downloaded from the web have been in pdb format. However, when I download them using Windows B&N Reader, most of them are epub. A few still download as pdb leading me to believe that they don't have epub versions for those particular books.

Try downloading a few samples using the Windows B&N software and see if they come down as epub or pdb. Let us know what comes out--I'm curious! For instance, the sample for Greg Maguire's Wicked should download as an epub.
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Old 04-27-2010, 03:28 PM   #168
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If the epub is available, you should be able to get it without a Nook, but only by using the Window's version of the B&N software. That's how I've been checking to see if any of my pdb ebooks have been updated to epub (so far none , but I only have two of them). All of the ebooks I've downloaded from the web have been in pdb format. However, when I download them using Windows B&N Reader, most of them are epub. A few still download as pdb leading me to believe that they don't have epub versions for those particular books.

Try downloading a few samples using the Windows B&N software and see if they come down as epub or pdb. Let us know what comes out--I'm curious! For instance, the sample for Greg Maguire's Wicked should download as an epub.
Nope.

The B&N Reader software forced me into firefox to "Shop." There is no in-software browsing the store. I added the Wicked sample with Windows Firefox, Downloaded it with Windows B&N Reader, and got a PDB.

So it's back to waiting...

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Old 04-27-2010, 09:20 PM   #169
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That is totally weird. Are you using the most recent version? I got an epub when I tried it.

Sorry I'm not much help here.
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That is totally weird. Are you using the most recent version? I got an epub when I tried it.

Sorry I'm not much help here.
Yep, downloaded it over the weekend.

Well, it was worth a try.

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Old 05-08-2010, 08:56 AM   #171
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Now this is interesting. B & N just came out with a new version of their Windows eReader. I have just re-downloaded all of my ebooks (they get put into a different folder now), and every one of them except for the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has downloaded as an epub. (Yay!!)
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Now this is interesting. B & N just came out with a new version of their Windows eReader. I have just re-downloaded all of my ebooks (they get put into a different folder now), and every one of them except for the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has downloaded as an epub. (Yay!!)
Yes! Indeed the new version did, even for the sample of I,Robot which is still a PDB in the other folder!

Good news... now some work ahead.

UPDATE: Ah, samples are not encrypted (makes sense). I will bite the bullet and buy a book.

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Old 05-24-2010, 04:49 AM   #173
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Just thought it would be useful to mention it here: there is now a Mac-compatible version of the script to get the adept key from ADE. You will need to run the script from the console, but it works on a Mac with ADE version 1.7.2 of ADE (don't know about earlier versions as the way ADE stores the key has changed).

Google ineptkeymac to find it.
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Old 05-24-2010, 03:57 PM   #174
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Well, I read thru the entire thread and didn’t see my problem addressed which, I hope, doesn’t mean I’m the only one having the problem ;-)
Everything works gr8 for PDFs so I know everything is installed correctly. But, I get an error MSG for epubs: Error: File name in directory “O
Mac OSX 10.5.8, Python 2.6, PyCrypto 2.1.0, ineptepub_v2.py [I noticed you just appended the py after pyw...]
I tried the zip trick, the files were readable - someone said not to rezip the mimetype file...?
This is the 1st x trying epub. I DLed it from the Overdrive.
Gr8 info you’ve provided. I bought an iPad and couldn’t wait to read books on it. DRM is so nonsensical - I can buy a hard cover, read it, gift it, and not expect the gestapo to kick down my door but buy a digital book and I can’t even share it to my iPad!!
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Old 05-24-2010, 04:54 PM   #175
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Well, I read thru the entire thread and didn’t see my problem addressed which, I hope, doesn’t mean I’m the only one having the problem ;-)
Everything works gr8 for PDFs so I know everything is installed correctly. But, I get an error MSG for epubs: Error: File name in directory “O
Mac OSX 10.5.8, Python 2.6, PyCrypto 2.1.0, ineptepub_v2.py [I noticed you just appended the py after pyw...]
I tried the zip trick, the files were readable - someone said not to rezip the mimetype file...?
This is the 1st x trying epub. I DLed it from the Overdrive.
Gr8 info you’ve provided. I bought an iPad and couldn’t wait to read books on it. DRM is so nonsensical - I can buy a hard cover, read it, gift it, and not expect the gestapo to kick down my door but buy a digital book and I can’t even share it to my iPad!!
First step is to see if the Sony Reader application or ADE will read the original ePUB. If so, this should work. If not, then this method will not work.

Okay a few ideas...

Did you try to your work via the command line (Terminal.app), or with OSX Finder (double-clicking the ineptepub.pyw)?

On the command line, you can run a simple fix for your epub without unzipping it.

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% cp your-epub.epub new-epub.epub
% zip -F new-epub.epub
Note the cp copies the original to a new file in case something goes wrong.
Then you can try running ineptepub.pyw on the new-epub.epub file.

If using Finder, you can't do this "fix" trick, and you have to unzip/re-zip. When you unzip the epub, the mimetype file is created with NO permissions at all, so you can't read or write to it (a "wtf!" is in order here). You can, however, change permissions simply, and then it will re-zip into an epub just fine.

Terminal.app (command line)
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% chmod a+r <unzip-dir>/mimetype
You can also do it via the Finder, single-clicking on the mimetype, selecting "Get Info" from the menu and in the "Sharing & Permissions" tab at the bottom of the Info window, you change "Privilege" to "Read only" or "Read & Write" (won't matter which) across the board. Now you can re-zip to a new ePub, and you're ready for ineptepub.pyw. This probably is not your issue though.

If these hints don't work, feel free to post the whole set of error messages, exactly as they appear on screen.

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If these hints don't work, feel free to post the whole set of error messages, exactly as they appear on screen.

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Ni!ice! Worked gr8, looks gr8 on my iPad, Thanx so much, Pie.
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Just thought it would be useful to mention it here: there is now a Mac-compatible version of the script to get the adept key from ADE. You will need to run the script from the console, but it works on a Mac with ADE version 1.7.2 of ADE (don't know about earlier versions as the way ADE stores the key has changed).

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You can also run it by double-clicking. And it also works with ADE 1.7.1 (don't know about earlier versions).
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Old 08-06-2010, 06:11 PM   #178
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Help? I've been reading this very helpful thread, and I can now handle my EPUB files. But I have had no luck with removing DRM from PDFs so that I can change their format in Calibre. The problem seems to be that I can't get Pycrypto to install properly.

The error message I get is:

error: could not create "build/lib.macosx.10.5-ppc-2.5" Permission denied.

Any idea what I need to do?

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Help? I've been reading this very helpful thread, and I can now handle my EPUB files. But I have had no luck with removing DRM from PDFs so that I can change their format in Calibre. The problem seems to be that I can't get Pycrypto to install properly.

The error message I get is:

error: could not create "build/lib.macosx.10.5-ppc-2.5" Permission denied.

Any idea what I need to do?

Thanks in advance!
Possibly you need to run Disk Utility, from the Utilities folder, and Repair Disk Permissions on your main hard drive?
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Possibly you need to run Disk Utility, from the Utilities folder, and Repair Disk Permissions on your main hard drive?
Actually, I'm pretty sure the permissions are actually working perfectly!

You need to run the installation as super user, as normal users do not have permission to write to the system python directories.

Precede the command with "sudo." For example, if the command is "make install" you would type:

"sudo make install"

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