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> Kobo's store does have DRM, but it's easily bypassed by Calibre See, but that's not actually the same thing as DRM-free. It's adversarial interop that's temp
by lolinder 2y ago
> Kobo's store does have DRM, but it's easily bypassed by Calibre
See, but that's not actually the same thing as DRM-free. It's adversarial interop that's temporarily allowed to work, but if said interop becomes popular enough the publishers will force Kobo to fix it.
At this point I'm really only interested in spending money on books that I can actually own—either physical copies or (where available) fully and legally DRM-free ebooks. I want my purchases to send the right message to publishers: that DRM-free can work.
- shawn_w 2y agoA fair number of the books I've bought for my Kobo are drm free.
- lolinder 2y agoYeah, and that's great! Where that's an option I'll definitely go for it. I'm just uninterested in spending money on a book that has DRM, regardless of how easy it is to bypass. I think it sends the wrong message.
- teemur 2y agoIs there a way to know beforehand if the e-book from Kobo is DRM or not? I thought they were all DRM free, but the last book I bought suddenly was DRM and haven't yet bothered to research (I have a couple of different size e-readers and just copying the file over has been handy.)
- EA-3167 2y agoIf they're DRM free it will be in the description. If you want to get rid of that DRM all you need is Calibre, a plugin called DeDRM... you open the ASCM file in the Adobe Editions program, copy the file from the root folder into Calibre, and that's it. DRM gone.
- EA-3167 2y agoSure, then you can always buy a physical copy and pirate a digital one.