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On 15/09/2020 20.55, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:35:48 +0200 Vinzenz Vietzke <vinz@vinzv.de> wrote:
Am Dienstag, 15. September 2020, 14:28:43 CEST schrieb J Leslie Turriff:
Which is why wary bibliophiles make a backup copy of the epubs without DRM.
Which seems to require Windoze? I haven't found a way to download the ebooks that I "purchased" on Amazon to my Linux machine.
No, Calibre can do that DRM-stuff very well: https://linuxconfig.org/calibre-drm-removal-for-ebooks-on-linux
How, exactly? That article says:
"Try it out. Find an ebook that has DRM. Click on the "Add Book" button in Calibre and browse to your book. Import it. You should be able to open up your newly imported book in the Calibre viewer."
But that doesn't answer the question. The word "browse" there doesn't mean the usual thing of roam the Internet; it simply means scan the filesystem of your computer.
And the question (with implied negative answer) was how to DOWNLOAD an ebook from a source - Amazon so presumably kindle, but I find it's the same with epubs as well - to your Linux computer.
That's the part that Leslie and I and everybody else are finding difficult.
You are right. Downloading the DRM protected ebook in Linux is simply not possible - except using old ADE17 under Wine. It is possible in *closed and locked* proprietary Linux machines, such as a kobo ereader. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)