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> But even if I were to buy a Kobo or Boox or something, that wouldn’t help me with the dozens of books I’ve already purchased on Apple’s platform THIS is the

• ArjenM 4y ago
  > "One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue," Ownership of data should be included in service, but rarely is.
• maronato 4y ago
  You can export a purchased book from Books on your Mac by dragging it out of the app https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7967098 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7967098
  • Kye 4y ago
    Doesn't work if you don't have a Mac.
    • mwint 4y ago
      Go to an Apple Store and do it, or buy an old MacBook Air / Mac mini for ~nothing off eBay.
      • ChuckNorris89 4y ago
        [Edited due to misunderstanding. Apologies.] Still, signing into public devices with your private credentials and data is a bad idea. What if they kick you out of the store or take away the device your were toying with before you manage to wipe/reset it?
        • akerl_ 4y ago
          The person you're replying to is suggesting "go to the apple store and use one of their demo computers to export the book", not "go to the apple store and buy a Mac".
          • waboremo 4y ago
            Which is also a very bad idea, never sign into demo devices anywhere.
    • verdenti 4y ago
  • muhehe 4y ago
    Can you confirm it works? Is from 2017 and afaik content bought through apple store has DRM.
    • xavdid 4y ago
      It's up to the publisher whether content bought from the Apple store has DRM, not the store itself. Many books have it, but publishers like TOR and any books from Brandon Sanderson don't. There's sometimes a line at the bottom of the description that'll note it. For example, on Redshirts (https://books.apple.com/us/book/redshirts/id501758516 https://books.apple.com/us/book/redshirts/id501758516) > At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
    • comex 4y ago
      I just tried dragging a purchased book to Finder, and it only gives me a .webloc pointing to the book's store URL. On the other hand, if I manually locate the book in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books, it appears to just be an (unzipped) ePub without any encryption.
    • maronato 4y ago
      I just tried dragging a book out of the “library” tab to my desktop and it gave me an epub. Tried on macOS Ventura with a book released this year
• jazzyjackson 4y ago
  private property is deprecated
  • JustSomeNobody 4y ago
    Modern day serfs
• bambax 4y ago
  Whenever I buy Kindle books I run them through the DeDRM plugin in Calibre. Most come out DRM free. Those that don't get returned immediately. Being tied to a specific platform is unacceptable.
• sohkamyung 4y ago
  My preference is to buy eBooks from non-DRM bookstores. That allows you to donwload the books and use any ePUB or PDF reader you link on whatever device you like. If a book is not available in a non-DRM format, I would rather buy the actual book or borrow from my library. Libreture maintains a list of such bookstores [1]. [1] https://libreture.com/bookshops/ https://libreture.com/bookshops/
  • RealStickman_ 4y ago
    Thank you for the link. I've mostly been ripping Kindle books until now, maybe I can buy some books on one of these DRM-free sites in the future.
• wfleming 4y ago
  Calibre is an excellent ebook collection manager, and there are plugins to help strip drm from your ebooks so you can keep backups.