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Your EPUB Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe - André Klein Dot Net (andreklein.net)
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Does DeDRM still work? The last time I tried under Linux I was unable to get it to run. If I remember correctly, ADE was the culprit.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I've used libgourou successfully many times in the past year to remove DRM using my ADE key.

    I angrily started doing this for every book I buy after changing reading device to a newer Kobo, and discovering that all the download links for .acsm files that my book store provides will expire after two years. I.e. after those two years it's impossible to move them to a new device unless I remove DRM.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    How do you get your ADE key?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    Create an account with ADE then activate using

    adept_activate -u "your.adobe.id@email.com" --output-dir ~/.adept

    IIUC this eats up an activation (I think they allow at most five) so back up the contents of that directory. You should be able to bring it with you to other computers.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    It works for non amazon books at least last i tried. Works on library books...but that feels wierd. I have enough money to buy books now, so sometimes i just op for the real thing.

    I have had luck reaching out to authors in the past. One even recommended yoho so that was funny.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I banged my head on this four many hours and couldn’t get it to work directly in Linux. The key issue seemed to be that ADE and Kobo had to be installed on the same device, so I’ve resorted to using a Windows VM (VirtualBox). It works fine enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    libgourou has no need for anything that has to do with Kobo. It's really only three cli commands: activate (once), download acsm, de-drm. It produces an unencrypted .epub that you can open as is or copy to your Kobo device with any ordinary file operation.

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