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white_nrdy@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Do you have an easy way to strip the DRM from the Kobo ebooks? If not, then is it much different thank Amazon? I also have a kobo but don’t buy from their store. I mainly buy books on ebooks.com if they are DRM free. And maybe acquire others that aren’t DRM free.

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bismuthbob@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
One thing to note about the Kobo store is that it (unlike Amazon) lists the DRM status of a given book towards the bottom of the store page below the reviews. If you see something like “Epub 2 (DRM Free)” then that’s the format that the book will be in if you download it.

You can download a book that you’ve purchased directly from the website on the My Account/My Books subpage. I’ve tested this out and it can be a good way to get paid DRM free ebooks, if that’s what the publisher wants to sell.

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- PastelKeystone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Bookshop.org also has a DRM-free search filter and shares profits with local bookstores.
  
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- white_nrdy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I thought I remember Amazon also listed that, but it’s moot at this point.
  
  Another good option that lists DRM plainly is ebooks.com
  
  They even have a search filter for only DRM free
  
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Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I use Calibre with a couple of plugins. KoboUtilities and Obok DeDRM. It is easy.

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- white_nrdy@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Ok, good to know. Next time I buy an eBook I’ll look at it
  
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Smokeless7048@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yea, I use calibre to strip it, have my entire collection backed up

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Deebster@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I have the DeDRM plugin set up on Calibre and it’s either it’s working perfectly or everything I’ve bought from Kobo didn’t come with DRM (I think it’s the first one).

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- white_nrdy@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s good to hear. The last (and only) book I bought on Kobos store I had to use Adobe Digital Editions I think, which was annoying since they don’t provide that for Linux.
  
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  - Deebster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Hmm, I do remember installing that at one point - it might be that I needed to extract a key from it to configure the plugin. I was on Windows then so it wouldn’t have been too hard.
    
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JoyfulCodingGuy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think DRM on Kobo books is dependent on what the publisher requests or something like that. The few I have bought don’t have DRM from what I can tell.

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