Hi all,
I hope i’m allowed to ask this, but i was wondering; do you buy your ebooks free from DRM? If so, where can you buy them, preferably globally?
EDIT: thank you all for your valuable comments, it’s much appreciated! Have a great weekend :-)
i can never find the ebooks i want drm free so i use calibre to make them drm free
I checked but on the website it explicitely implies it doesn’t remove the drm restrictions?
**Why does calibre not support DRM? ** calibre is open source software while DRM by its very nature is closed. If calibre were to support opening or viewing DRM files it could be trivially modified to be used as a tool for DRM removal which is illegal under today’s laws. Open source software and DRM are a clash of principles. While DRM is all about controlling the user, open source software is about empowering the user. The two simply can not coexist.
Please be careful with your wording. Calibre does not remove DRM. Calibre does support plugins, and as it is a totally open source application, these plugins include third party ones for which the Calibre developers have no responsibility. One of these third party plugins will remove most types of ebook DRM.
I use Libby to borrow ebooks, they let you download epub version with DRM. Then I just strip the DRM with calibre and immediately return so i don’t take up the library copy anymore. Then I use the DRM-free epub I get from calibre to read whenever I have time, no 3-week time limit.
I need to learn how to do this. Not the borrowing books part, I’ve got that down. It’s the other part I don’t know how to do.
I don’t know if it’s a grey area legally. I dont buy the books, but i still have a permanent copy available whenever I need to.
And of course, you ethically delete the file once you have finished reading it.
Nudge. Right?
Yes. I buy on ebooks dot com, where you can filter by the DRM-free critter. It is also a neat trick to discover new authors.
I do this absolutely out of personal opinion on the matter, and would rather buy dead-tree-and-ink than a closed version (that won’t open on my e-reader anyway).
The whole - and excellent - Murderbot Diaries series is DRM-free ! I wonder what/who make the decision on that matter.
If there is a DRM free version of anything I use or need, I go out of my way to buy it. Otherwise I dont buy anything I use or need.
I want to say that Tor Books releases DRM-free ebooks by default, and most of the authors I like these days are published via Tor. (And Tor being a SFF imprint is relevant to this sub.)
So I kind of get DRM-free eBooks by default.
