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The really annoying thing is that libgen is often the only place one can actually get a book.
by mhh__ 2y ago
The really annoying thing is that libgen is often the only place one can actually get a book.
- teekert 2y agoRight?! I have a PocketBook, their store is absolutely useless, I can’t read anything with DRM, even had to return paid for books because I couldn’t get that adobe crap working on Linux. It’s drm-free or libgen for me.
- d1sxeyes 2y agoI was considering getting one but your comment worries me. Do you have an older device? I thought the device itself could do the DRM if you threw an acsm file at it?
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- teekert 2y agoHmm, never tried that. What's the use of the DRM if it would work? The most frustrating is that store, even searching for the most popular books yields weird, useless results for me.
- d1sxeyes 2y agoYou can borrow e-books from libraries, but they come with DRM which means that they can manage “loans” and “returns” so they have a nominal number of books to lend out. Quite a good service actually, called Libby. There are obviously ways to remove the DRM and make just a normal ePub but I’d quite like not to have to do that if I don’t have to.
- saulrh 2y agoEven when you're in a major international market like the United States it's frequently the case that books are nearly unobtainable, especially if they're older or limited printings of specialist material. Sometimes I'll get recommended an old SF book or a particular reference manual and it turns out that it had one run in 1985 and there are four copies available on the used market at prices between three hundred and three thousand dollars. Tons of works are one minor complication, like living in the southern hemisphere or not being rich, away from being effectively non-existent.