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Old 10-01-2010, 02:46 PM   #1
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"The Strain" DRM crashing Kobo?

I just want to share my past few days dealing with what I think is a bad ebook. I first bought The Strain, by Guillermo Del Toro from Books On Board. It took over a minute to open on my Kobo and every action after took about a minute. Within 10 minutes my kobo had frozen. I had to go back to Chapters and have them re-install my OS from an SD card.
Still wanting to read the book I decided to purchase it from Kobo this time. Now I am having the same issues. I am going to remove the book before it can cause further damage. I'm just wondering if anyone else out there has had a problem similar to this or with this exact book? I assume the file created by the publisher is bad in some way? Personally I suspect its the DRM that has caused all the problems. I'd also like to mention that it has some of the worst formatting I've ever seen on an ebook.

On another note does anyone know where I can get a 'good' copy of The Strain?
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Old 10-01-2010, 04:02 PM   #2
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I just want to share my past few days dealing with what I think is a bad ebook. I first bought The Strain, by Guillermo Del Toro from Books On Board. It took over a minute to open on my Kobo and every action after took about a minute. Within 10 minutes my kobo had frozen. I had to go back to Chapters and have them re-install my OS from an SD card.
Still wanting to read the book I decided to purchase it from Kobo this time. Now I am having the same issues. I am going to remove the book before it can cause further damage. I'm just wondering if anyone else out there has had a problem similar to this or with this exact book? I assume the file created by the publisher is bad in some way? Personally I suspect its the DRM that has caused all the problems. I'd also like to mention that it has some of the worst formatting I've ever seen on an ebook.

On another note does anyone know where I can get a 'good' copy of The Strain?
IF you're okay with this, strip the DRM and convert it in Calibre EPUB to EPUB. I've heard that it sometimes fixes bugs in certain books. That way you don't have to waste money on another book if it works.
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Old 10-01-2010, 04:14 PM   #3
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IF you're okay with this, strip the DRM and convert it in Calibre EPUB to EPUB. I've heard that it sometimes fixes bugs in certain books. That way you don't have to waste money on another book if it works.
Honestly I find the idea of stripping the DRM daunting. I've never done it before and I'm on a mac so I don't know if that makes it harder. I'd like to learn though.
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Honestly I find the idea of stripping the DRM daunting. I've never done it before and I'm on a mac so I don't know if that makes it harder. I'd like to learn though.
Go here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92462

They must know where you can get a good copy
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Old 10-02-2010, 08:08 AM   #5
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I have seen pirate copies of that book floating around if you would be more comfortable with those. I don't know if they are fan-made ebooks or just liberated pro-made ones. You could also try contacting one of the writers if they have an online presence. They would be more likely to want you to read the book than the publishers, especially if you have already paid for it.
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On another note does anyone know where I can get a 'good' copy of The Strain?
You might consider contacting the publisher, Harper Collins.

Alternately, it's available from the Toronto Public Library as an ebook in ePub format. There's a hold list (including me) but its only 6 people long and I might drop out. I may borrow it just to check out the experience. My Kobo has never locked up.

I agree with your reticence on stripping DRM. OTOH, in this instance, since you've already bought a copy, "stumbling" across an unlocked one as a replacement doesn't strike me as wrong.
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Old 10-02-2010, 03:38 PM   #7
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Update. I realized the other day that I hadn't tried uploading the book using the Kobo app.
I bought it whilel I was at work and since my work computer at work doesn't have the kobo app on it only ADE that's what I used. Well, I uploaded it at home using the kobo app and now it works with no problems AND has much better formatting. Very odd.
Just to see what would happen, thanks to a mobileread member (surprisingly easy), I learned to strip the DRM from it and it still slowed down my kobo, so it's not just the DRM that caused the problem. I really have no idea why it's different but it is. Even when I load the stripped version from Calibre it's the same problem.
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Old 10-02-2010, 05:46 PM   #8
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Now you can unzip it and look at the stylesheet file. I'm betting it's very large, and with duplicated styles. I've put a hold on it from the library, so eventually I'll get to take a look at it.
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Duiker--if you have a non DRM ePub file, try converting ePUB to ePUB in Calibre before adding it to your reader--see if that changes anything.
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I didn't have any trouble reading it on my Kindle DX last fall. Though I wasn't particularly impressed by the story.
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The Kindle DX file would be completely different from the DRM ePub Duiker was trying to load on to his Kobo.
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The Kindle DX file would be completely different from the DRM ePub Duiker was trying to load on to his Kobo.
I realize that, I was just pointing out that it wasn't on the kindle file so that it could be more properly diagnosed to the DRM having the issue, not the source text or formatting that seems to plague some files.
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I realize that, I was just pointing out that it wasn't on the kindle file so that it could be more properly diagnosed to the DRM having the issue, not the source text or formatting that seems to plague some files.
Poor formating could well be the issue though. Both books purchased are DRM'ed ePUB's and they essentially crashed the Kobo.

The liberated ebook still caused issues but allowed, at least, the Kobo to function.

I have not had an ebook crash either of my readers as yet, but have had some purchased ePUB's that assumed I read on a 3" wide device. In those cases (books 1-2 of a series), I removed the DRM and reprocessed the ebook via caibre. After that, all was well.

It would be interesting to see how Duiker's purchases perform on another ereader.
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I realize that, I was just pointing out that it wasn't on the kindle file so that it could be more properly diagnosed to the DRM having the issue, not the source text or formatting that seems to plague some files.
Sorry, but it doesn't do any good to draw a comparison between a Kindle/Mobipocket file & an ePub; it could very well be formatting or source text, since the process of creating a Kindle file strips out a lot of formatting from the source.

You could say that if you were comparing a B&N ePub and a different DRM ePub, though.
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