Comments | droewyn: Ebook DRM Removal Guide

droewyn

Ebook DRM Removal Guide

Apr 08, 2014 13:28

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wcg April 8 2014, 18:30:22 UTC

Cut tag, please?

droewyn April 8 2014, 18:31:13 UTC

Whoops -- sorry!

sdaisyk April 8 2014, 19:52:08 UTC

I've used this process but I always forget how to do it months later when I realize I've gotten a few new books. Also seems like I can never find the directions I used the time before... so yay! thanks! bookmarking!
:-)

droewyn April 8 2014, 20:12:17 UTC

That's kind of the "nice" thing about reading Kindle books on a Nook the way I do; I'm forced to do this if I want to read the books I've purchased!

Here's how I buy books...

- Buy from Amazon or whereever.
- Add to Goodreads.
- Add to my backlog reading list spreadsheet.
- Download and import into Calibre.
- Upload to Nook.
- Rename the old DRM'd file and save it as an additional backup just in case.

johnpalmer April 10 2014, 17:48:27 UTC

Thank you. This has been something that bugs me. I may someday want a non-Kindle. I'm not sure if Amazon is going to make another e-paper DX. And, hang it, yes, if I *bought* that e-book, I should be able to read it even if Amazon and I end up in some funky dispute.

droewyn April 10 2014, 23:56:16 UTC

You're welcome. Let me know if the instructions make sense -- they make sense to me, but then they would, wouldn't they?

johnpalmer April 11 2014, 16:47:27 UTC

It definitely seems to - I'll probably try it tonight or tomorrow and find out for sure. But reading it, it looks like my keyboard and mouse could duplicate what you've done.

thewayne April 21 2014, 14:43:01 UTC

Thanks! I recently downloaded a stripper for epubs on the Mac to temporarily acquire a couple of research books, three day checkouts just weren't suitable. And I really hate Adobe's methodology for dealing with DRM.

One thing that I really like on my Mac is the ability to send a printout to a PDF, it made copying some web sites to my Nook really easy for my current classes. But what I REALLY want is the ability to print directly to epub, that would make my life so much easier since then I could reflow text and increase the font size. After the semester ends I should search around for it, and if not, I have a new book on Objective C sitting around, maybe I should get back in to programming.

johnpalmer April 24 2014, 05:01:10 UTC

(Gotta remember not to read when bleary. Damn it, I spent two minutes wondering how one downloads an exotic dancer.)

thewayne April 24 2014, 05:12:38 UTC

You can do some really amazing things with 3-D printers these days. ;-)

New Nook DRM Scheme droewyn April 28 2015, 14:44:48 UTC

Changes at Barnes & NobleIn mid-2014, Barnes & Noble changed the way they generated encryption keys. Instead of deriving the key from the user's name and credit card number, they started generating a random key themselves, sending that key through to devices when they connected to the B&N servers. This means that some users will find that no combination of their name and CC# will work in decrypting their ebooks ( ... )