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> Unfortunately, if the book is DRM-protected (very likely!), you would need to strip out DRM before conversion which is downright illegal LMAOOOOOO!!!!! Isn't

• dredmorbius 3y ago
  In the general sense, no. There are very specific exceptions to prohibitions against DRM circumvention, but many of those are so encumbered as to be useless. The standards and regulations addressing these are long, complex, and difficult to parse. See Cory Doctorow's discussion here: "The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped" (2021-10-28) <https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#felony-contempt-of-business-model https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#felony-co...> And the US Federal Register, "Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies" (2021-10-28): <https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/10/28/2021-23311/exemption-to-prohibition-on-circumvention-of-copyright-protection-systems-for-access-control https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/10/28/2021-23...> I see listed: educational and derivative uses; accessibility of audiovisual works; accessibilty of literary works; medical device data; the unlocking, jailbreaking, and repair of computer programs and systems; security research; software presentation; video game preservation; and 3D printers. But as a general exemption "for personal use", nothing at all.