12-16-2011, 08:40 AM | #16 | |
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12-16-2011, 08:43 AM | #17 | |
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Don't know about Sony and B&N, but Kobo does allow non-DRMed books, and show explicitely the DRM Status : http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Gobli...KHg/page1.html |
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12-16-2011, 08:47 AM | #18 | |
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12-16-2011, 08:48 AM | #19 | |
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12-16-2011, 08:49 AM | #20 | |
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12-16-2011, 09:08 AM | #21 | |
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12-16-2011, 09:49 AM | #22 |
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Well, I suppose the problem might be that what you describe may be illegal (breaking digital locks) in the poster's country of residence. I personally am not bothered by it, but I can see someone not feeling great about doing it either.
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12-16-2011, 11:35 AM | #23 |
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12-16-2011, 11:36 AM | #24 |
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12-16-2011, 12:05 PM | #25 | |
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12-16-2011, 12:09 PM | #26 |
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It's not so good going the other way, you sometimes get random text size changes in the converted epub. Easy enough to fix, you just change the .css file, but it does happen.
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12-16-2011, 12:13 PM | #27 |
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Of course that happens going from mobi to epub. Mobi doesn't use CSS so there's bound to be some subtle differences when calibre basically has to invent a stylesheet from Mobi's html 3.2 source.
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12-16-2011, 02:30 PM | #28 | |
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You probably never looked at the code, or know much in html and css. Most of time, i spot calibre conversion because of the weirdo code before i see trace of "calibre" in the css or opf file.
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12-16-2011, 02:37 PM | #29 |
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Actually, I don't think this is 100% correct any longer. I think the new K4 serial numbers won't work with the DRM removal software.
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12-16-2011, 02:46 PM | #30 | |
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