On 2020-09-15 05:36:06 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 15/09/2020 04.51, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2020-09-14 15:14:07 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The procedure then is:
option a) In a Windows computer install ADE, and match your reader to ADE (authorize it). Then on that Windows computer click on the link to "download" the epub which should offer to download with ADE. Do it. Verify that you can read the ebook inside ADE. ADE should be able to put the epub on the ereader, if it supports DRM.
Install Calibre with the plugin, and then open the epub - somehow, the plugin finds the key somewhere in ADE. Save the epub. Use Calibre to read the epub directly, or store it on the ereader, this time without protection.
option b) In a Windows computer install ADE. Then on that Windows computer click on the link to "download" the epub which should offer to download with ADE. Do it. Verify that you can read the ebook inside ADE.
Install Calibre with the plugin, and then open the epub - somehow, the plugin finds the key somewhere in ADE. Save the epub. Use Calibre to read the epub directly, or store it on the ereader, this time without protection.
option c) Install ADE and calibre in the ipad or Android machine. Install the plugin. Download the epub from its link, which should trigger download with ADE. You should be able to read the epub inside ADE. Then use calibre to open the same file and save elsewhere. Hopefully it is decrypted and you can copy over to your reader device.
I have not tested C, it is an assumption.
Isn't it amazing, having to go through all of this just to get a real copy of a free book? This is a case of an industry that still thinks that all Linux users are pirates. The vendor of my favourite 3D Modeling package is the same; their software runs only on Windoze and Mac (though they do allow their background rendering to run on Linux, otherwise nobody in the 3D industry would use it).
You have to blame Adobe specifically, they refuse to publish Linux versions of their software.
In the past, they made Acrobat Reader for Linux, then they stopped. Why? What happened? Why do they hate us? Did we piss them?
And they don't make ADE available. It appears that version 17 could be run in wine, but how do we get it?
On the other hand, my Kobo Touch ereader, which runs Linux inside, says in the about page that it contains Reader® Mobile from Adobe. The DRM technology is theirs.
It's not that Adobe stopped making a Linux version of their reader, it's that they refused to plug the security holes in it, so most Linux distros dropped it and recommended that it not be used. From what I've read, Adobe is pretty cavalier about the quality of their code. My comment is more about the unavailability of ebook code readers for the Linux platform, and DRM issues in general. I have bought only two ebooks, which are DRMed, and AFAIK I can only read them using Amazon's web-based viewer, which is pretty pitiful. (If there's something else I can use that doesn't involve dedicated hardware or Windoze, please clue me in. :-) ) Leslie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org