- Can you download a DRM'd file from Kobo?
- Does it..ahem..can it "work" with something like Calibre?
Otherwise I will continue to slowly accumulate them through used bookstores.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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Buy your legal license, then download it from the high seas sans drms.
I've been able to strip the Kobo DRM out of a couple of book bundles using Calibre. Haven't bought this one yet, but I'd assume there wouldn't be a problem.
Yes and yes. They use a couple of different drm schemes and you might need an adobe digital editions login for anything using the older one. The newer one doesn’t need anything special.
Good to know, thanks!
Not in Canada, it’s not.
@YurkshireLad I hadn't noticed that. I just checked the other book bundles and didn't see any restrictions so I'm guessing it has something to do with this bundle coming through Kobo which would be odd since Kobo is a Canadian company.
Not Canadian anymore, Indogo sold them to Rakuten.
Not available in Aus either, and other Kobo bundles have been. Probably a publisher issue.
Could you use a vpn and buy it?
I could ask a family member in England to buy it for me.
You could access the website, but I'm unclear on how the payment process works. Would canadian credit cards not be identifiable as being from Canada?
Billing address might mess that up
Not in Canada, it’s not.
Y’arrr… there’s an answer to that.
GNU TPratchett
And for those of us who can afford it, the bundle is a great way to loosely support the actual author (or his estate, in this case). No shade thrown at any book sharing because that’s what libraries are for.
Isn't that just the metadata?
Nope, theres a .rar file with 61mb.
See https://archive.org/download/discworld-complete-43-books-by-pratchett-terry-z-lib.org
Just found out from that other Lemmy thread? Haha
E-books are...fine. But there's something about physical books that really appeals to me. I just don't get the same experience when reading off a screen. To me, physical books vs e-books are like eating a real strawberry vs chewing strawberry flavored gum and I can't fully explain why.
Same but I still prefer eBook/PDF quite a lot. I like it for my text books so I can easily make copies and not carry as much. But paper feels more at home for fun reading.