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It's more a trust issue in a technology. Pirated ebooks don't have DRM and never expire, can be opened on any device and you keep the money anyway.
by akerro 7y ago
It's more a trust issue in a technology. Pirated ebooks don't have DRM and never expire, can be opened on any device and you keep the money anyway.
- pjmlp 7y agoOr never buy DRM books to start with. I own a Kindle, however I only buy ebooks from stores that offer epub and PDF as well. At max with watermarks.
- bad_user 7y agoAny recommendations for such stores? I know of https://www.downpour.com https://www.downpour.com for audio books and I get all my audio books from them since they are DRM-free. Would love to know of such a service for ebooks, but for fiction.
- winterbc 7y agoDon’t forget https://www.humblebundle.com/ https://www.humblebundle.com/ for frequent book bundles.
- nyolfen 7y agotor is a scifi/fantasy+adjacent publisher that famously offers drm-free ebooks https://www.tor.com/ https://www.tor.com/
- ulysses 7y agoBaen Books https://www.baen.com/ https://www.baen.com/ They have always been very customer friendly. They have a "free library" section, too. (Often has such things as the first book in a series.) J Novel Club https://j-novel.club/top https://j-novel.club/top Translated Japanese light novels. There's a membership that lets you read along as they translate, but if you purchase the ebook when they're done, it's DRM free. And of course http://www.gutenberg.org/ http://www.gutenberg.org/
- dabockster 7y agoIf you live in the US and have a library card, try Overdrive. You can check out a huge catalog of eBooks for essentially free (since it’s paid via your local library).
- bscphil 7y agoOverdrive ebooks are DRMed (or at least the majority of them are).
- chocolatkey 7y agoOverdrive primarily uses Adobe's DRM system. You can "liberate" the titles with the use of the DeDRM toolset or get the resources directly off their "libby" platform, which simply requires reassembling the assets into an EPUB
- cannonedhamster 7y agoLooks like some people are forgetting the first rule of Fight Club.
- bscphil 7y agoI know you can break it, but this is in response to someone asking a question about how to buy DRM-free ebooks.
- lostlogin 7y agoIt’s not too hard to break this DRM. My library lets me ‘borrow’ ebooks and sometimes they are due back and I haven’t finished them. It’s so ridiculous.
- robin_reala 7y agoI contribute to Standard Ebooks that takes PD text (primarily from Gutenberg but also elsewhere) and reformats it with good typography and consistent styling, before re-releasing it as public domain again. We’re coming up to 300 titles now, any problems you find can be fixed with a pull request on github if you want: https://standardebooks.org/ https://standardebooks.org/
- gorbypark 7y agoIt's not the same as buying DRM free, but stripping DRM from most eBook formats is pretty trivial these days, afaik. Unless something has changed in the last few years since I last bought a kindle edition of a book (which I stripped of DRM so something like this couldn't happen).
- jtbayly 7y agoIt’s not trivial for Kindle anymore. I did it recently on a Mac, and it took a fair bit of work, was complicated and confusing, and required finding an old version of the Kindle reader program and somehow preventing it from checking in with Amazon’s servers. My brother in law recently tried and failed after having done it in the past.
- darkpuma 7y agoIt's still trivial AFAIK (I last did it one or two years ago) if you have an old kindle device, and can therefore convince Amazon to send you the poorly encrypted files meant for old kindles. I use a "Kindle Keyboard" e.g. the 3rd gen. Amazon has stopped selling new-old-stock, but it seems you can still find them on ebay for somewhere between $20-50. Incidentally this model of Kindle also comes with text-to-speach, which is a really nice feature which I believe is missing from all newer models (removed to avoid cannibalizing audio book sales.)
- anoncake 7y agoKeep in mind that by buying DRMed books you give companies an incentive to produce them. If you're opposed to DRM, it may be better to pirate instead. Especially if you live in a jurisdiction in which removing DRM is illegal so you're breaking the law anyway.
- pjmlp 7y agoPackt, Manning, O'Reilly I buy mostly technical e-books.
- chance_state 7y agoMy method is to torrent the ebook, then purchase the paperback from the author's website when I finish it.