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http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...-12-years-ago/ And it shut down in September 2003: http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...-up-on-ebooks/ Quote:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...november-2000/ And in their defense, they didn't control the ebooks they were selling so when Amazon stopped selling them users suffered the same fate as when Fictiownise or many other ebookstores shut down. My point is that this wasn't just Amazon but a structural flaw shared by many ebookstores. |
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11 ebooks purchased in 2013 !
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By the way, all of us INCLUDING YOU waste too much time here. At least I am retired and have plenty of spare time. I assume you work for a living and are losing money every minute you spend here. I find this Forum very entertaining and INFORMATIVE. Its the ONLY Forum I've been following in the last three months. What I have just learned from Harry's post above is that all those Sony epub eBook files probably can NOT be stripped of DRM by Alf since I acquired them 2 generations ago of PC's. Thus, Alf will not find any decryption codes for them on my current PC. I would have to go back to Sony and install their current PC reader and then re-download the epub eBooks again to convert them to Amazon format if I wanted to open them on my Kindles. My question to you or anyone else, who cares to answer, what would happen then to my highlights and notes on all those epub eBooks? Would they come over with the Calibre / Alf conversions? How would I get them all in the Amazon Cloud? Would they have to be sent as eBooks or Documents? One more question: can the Calibre / Alf combo decrypt my old MS PC Reader and Adobe Reader DRM protected eBooks. I cannot get those readers again since I have long forgotten my ID's and passwords when I acquired them? Last edited by sirmaru; 01-04-2014 at 03:24 PM. |
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Those are authorised copies, made with the permission of the copyright holder. The copy you give to your friend is unauthorised, and a violation of copyright. It's not nitpicking - it's the fundamental issue.
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If the books are so old that they are in Sony LRF format, then I don't know if DRM can be removed. I wasn't e-reading at the time of LRF and don't know the format. Quote:
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Alf doesn't actually "crack" DRM. It removes it by decrypting the book, using the key (YOUR key, based on YOUR ID) that Adobe Digital Editions itself uses. This is the reason you must have ADE installed and working properly. As said, this means that you can't un-DRM books from someone else. Your neighbor can't just give you some DRM-ed books and then ask you to remove the DRM, because these books are encrypted while downloading, using HIS ID, and thus HIS key. You can't decrypt them with your key. It also means that you can't remove the DRM of your own books anymore, if you lost your ID (and thus, your key). Obviously your neighbor could un-DRM his own books and then give them to you, and you would be able to read them. That would be illegal however. You reading them wouldn't be, but the fact that he gave them to you is. (In the Netherlands, removing DRM for your own use, if you know how, is not illegal. Distributing the un-DRM-ed material afterward *IS* illegal.) Last edited by Katsunami; 01-04-2014 at 03:59 PM. |
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Thanks for that information.
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The highlights and notes are the sum total of what I wanted to remember about the books. Amazon stores highlights and notes here: https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights I'm not sure if that site is only for American residents or all Amazon customers. Its too bad Sony, Adobe and Microsoft never had sites like that to the best of my knowledge; but, even if they did, had I forgotten my ID for Adobe and Microsoft, I would have not been able to access them anyway. Last edited by sirmaru; 01-04-2014 at 04:15 PM. |
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![]() I started out with e-readers in late 2007 (MOBI and some LIT), quit again early 2008, had a hiatus of about 4 years, and at that time EPUB / AZW3 were the only two that (still) actually counted ![]() Last edited by Katsunami; 01-04-2014 at 04:51 PM. |
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![]() Adobe does not sell its own e-books AFAIK. They just maintain/oversee the EPUB format and sell the DRM-scheme for it; all the rest is up to the booksellers. Last edited by Katsunami; 01-04-2014 at 04:50 PM. |
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That said, I generally purchase my music from Amazon; it tends to be cheaper there and I get cash back on my Amazon Visa card. If I were wanting MP3s instead of AACs, I'd definitely stick to Amazon. |
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This is the reason why I will keep buying CD's, so I can rip them to FLAC myself. FLAC is lossless, and can be converted to any other lossless format without losing quality. (And if I need to, I can generate an MP3 or AAC or any other library in any format I want.) If I'd buy digital music, it'd be in FLAC format only. Or, of course, another lossless format such as Monkey's Audio (APE) or even Apple Lossless (ALAC) which would then be converted to FLAC. |
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Interesting but not quite true.
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My wife reads from 2 of them and I read from 2 of them. We sometimes read the same eBook and use bookmarks so we don't get confused. If that occurs, I usually start the eBook first and then she starts later so our bookmarks can easily tell the locations. The eBooks are merely stored in her Collection of Reading and in my Collection of Reading. Are we in technical violation of the copyright rules or would we have to be careful that one finished entirely before the next person starts? That is usually the case anyway. |
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