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Old 04-05-2014, 08:07 PM   #16
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Can you explain how you think a library system could lend books without DRM? You refer to it as "the publishers' insistence on DRM", but how else could a library system work?
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There are DRM free library books now thru Overdrive. When you do a search at my libraries they are referred to as Open epub and Open pdf. You can't return them early and it's on the honor system for you to remove them from your device.
Libraries lend print books on an honor system and the system, for the most part, works. With open epubs, you can't read the file after the lending period, so if there are some less than honest patrons, they'll have to go through some hoops if they want to continue reading the file.

This again, is about the publishers not public libraries. Public libraries have not made the current e-book lending scheme with its licenses or its DRM.
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Old 04-05-2014, 08:20 PM   #17
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With open epubs, you can't read the file after the lending period, so if there are some less than honest patrons, they'll have to go through some hoops if they want to continue reading the file.
With an open (ie DRM-free) library epub you can read the file forever lending period or not (same with DRM-free library audiobooks). It's up to the borrower to delete it when the lending period ends, there's no mechanism that keeps you from continue to use it like there is with DRM'd library books. The only exception might be if you're using OverDrive's app (it may prompt you to delete the book?) instead of downloading the ePub and using it on your favorite reader or app.
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There are DRM free library books now thru Overdrive. When you do a search at my libraries they are referred to as Open epub and Open pdf. You can't return them early and it's on the honor system for you to remove them from your device.
My library has almost 19k DRM epubs and 416 Open epubs. They're just not that common. My friend's library has 72k DRM epubs and 2k Open epubs. The open epubs seems to be all romance books, vampire books and out of copyright classics.

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Libraries lend print books on an honor system and the system, for the most part, works.
My library doesn't lend print books on an honor system. You agree to return the book by a certain date and if you don't you start getting charged a fee that rapidly exceeds the price of the book. And if you have outstanding books on your account you can't take out any more. I suppose you could theoretically steal a bunch of books from the library in one go, but after that they won't let you take out any more books.
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Old 04-07-2014, 03:38 AM   #19
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Most eInk devices run Linux. A few use Android (eg Sony), but the majority run Linux.
apologies, I had a dislexic attack, I meant to say Android on Kobo, but (as I think you imply) in any case this is not what the OP was after.
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No, Paola, no need to apology. You've been absolutely spot on.

It's possible to install a working debian image on a Kobo
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=222123

as well as an Ubunto on the Onyx M92
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=217438
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