The acsm file (which you get from those ebook stores and is supposed to be opened by Adobe Digital Editions) does contain a URL to a protected version of the ebook, but to my knowledge it is not possible to crack it without using WINE or Windows). I'm not even sure if you can properly download those ebooks without Adobe Digital Editions, I thought the software did something to the ebook and that without that something you cannot even crack the DRM, although I'm not entirely sure about this. I don't mind if another sort of DRM is involved, as long as it works crossplatform.Ĭlick to expand.But the plugin for removing DRM with Calibre still depends on Windows libraries, doesn't it? And without somehow removing the Adobe DRM I still can't do anything with Adobe protected ebooks, not even reading them. I just want to get rid of Adobe entirely. I feel pretty silly paying a store for not-delivered services, though, so here comes the question:ĭoes anyone know of a store that sells Discworld ebooks that are not made unreadable by that horrid Adobe, so that I can read them on any device I want (and so that I can stop supporting Adobe's malpractices)?īTW: I don't want to use weird Calibre plugins to remove the DRM from the ebook, it is still illegal to do that, I will still support Adobe with my money and as far as I know, there is only one DRM-stripping Calibre plugin and that one requires WINE. It's still discutable if it is legal to do that, but at least I've paid for the ebooks and allowed Terry Pratchett to get a few cents from my purchase (though while the majority of the money probably goes to the money wolves that refused to offer decent customer services). A lot of ereaders are not compatible with Adobe DRM, and neither are my computers (which run Linux Mint 99.9% of the time), so the only way to sort-of-legally read Discworld ebooks is to buy them in some store or another and then still download them from illegal sources. There is a little problem with Discworld ebooks though: every website that sells them has them protected with that horrid Adobe DRM, which means that the ebooks are not usable on almost anything that does not run Windows. I'm quite fond of Discworld, and well, I bought a couple of novels, found a lot of others at some libraries.
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