Re: [iPad] eBook readers

 

Is that not illegal, removing DRM? Are you converting pay files to free files? I am all for free, but not to deny payment to the creators


From: Curby Keith <clkeith50@yahoo.com>
To: "iPad@yahoogroups.com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] eBook readers

 
I used dedrm on the files, then used Calibre with it's default settings to convert to both .epub and .pdf formats. Search for dedrm using Yahoo or Google search.

Curby


From: David H. Bailey <dhbailey52@comcast.net>
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [iPad] eBook readers

 
Were they DRM Kindle books? If so, could you let me know how you did
that, please? Thanks!
David

On 2/20/2013 5:07 PM, Curby Keith wrote:
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>
> I've used Calibre to convert Kindle books (.mobi, .azw, .azw3) format to
> .epub and all worked fine on my Nook.
>
> Curby
> Del City, OK
>
>
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> *From:* David H. Bailey dhbailey52@comcast.net>
> *To:* iPad@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 20, 2013 3:42 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [iPad] eBook readers
>
> On 2/18/2013 8:18 PM, __A_YAHOO_USER__ wrote:
> > I have a number of ebooks from different sources such as B & N,
> > Google, iTunes, etc. In my hands, it would seem on the iPad that each
> > seller needs its own specific ebook reader app for its ebook
> > purchases and that ebooks purchased from one seller cannot be read
> > using another seller's app. Is this true? Is there any way(s) for an
> > ebook purchased from one seller to be read on another seller's app?
> > In particular, I am interested in placing all my ebooks on iBook or
> > at least one reader app instead of having them scattered all over the
> > place on different reader apps which is messy and disorganized. Is
> > there a universal ebook reader app that can accept all ebooks
> > irrespective of supplier? I can imagine this may be a particular
> > problem with ebooks borrowed from public libraries also.
> >
>
> Someday there may be a single ebook reader app that reads all the
> different proprietary formats, but that day isn't today.
>
> There are ways to strip DRM from some of the proprietary formats and
> then using a utility such as Calibre you can convert non-DRM ebooks
> between formats so you can end up with them all in the same reader. But
> it's not easy to strip DRM from some of the formats, and it is
> potentially illegal (the courts seem to have decided both ways in
> different cases, so there's no clearcut legal precedent to bypass the
> Digital Millenium Copyright Act parts that make it illegal to remove
> copy protection, at least from what I've read. I'll be happy to learn
> otherwise.
>
> I tried to convert Kindle books to ePub, but I could never get the
> steps
> I found online to work right so I gave up.
>
> Supposedly all ePub works can be read by the same reader, even with
> DRM,
> so if you have some from different sources you should be able to read
> them all in the same reader. "Should" being the operative word.
>
> So until the day that a company actually licenses the technology from
> the different ebook vendors and combines them all into a single reader
> app (that would likely cost some money to buy that app), we're stuck
> with multiple reader apps and trying to remember which book we
> purchased
> in which format.
>
> --
> David H. Bailey
> dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
>
> http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com
> http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com/>
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