

It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. Calibre supports organizing existing e-books into virtual libraries, displaying, editing, creating and converting e-books, as well as syncing ebooks with a variety of e-readers. What is Calibre and DeDRM plugin?Ĭalibre is a cross-platform open-source suite of e-book software.

In other words, if you buy a book on Kobo, you can only read it on your Kobo eReaders or Kobo app. DRM locks a file so that only the person who purchased it can read it, and only on the device or app that vendor provided.

DRM tries to control the use, modification, and distribution of copyrighted works. I thank them all, and hope that someone will always step up to continue the work.Digital rights management (DRM) are a set of access control technologies for restricting the use of copyrighted works. So noDRM is just the latest in a long line of wonderful people who've allowed me to spend a lot of money on ebooks, as I decided way back sometime in the early 2000s to never buy an ebook with DRM I couldn't remove. IIRC, Apprentice Alf set up a blog with explanations and links to places to download the latest version (which was usually whatever fileshare site was still working!)Īnd Apprentice Harper set up a gihub account with all the versions back to The Dark Reverser's mobipocket script in the history, giving a stable place to find the latest version. Then there was I♥CABBAGES who released DRM removal for Adobe ebooks.Īnd then there were many others who improved the tools, including decrypting and decoding Amazon's Topaz and decrypting KFX files.Īnd the people who worked on decrypting Kobo books from the Kobo app. Or was Apprentice Harper involved all along? (Don't know the history.)Īs I recall, the first was "The Dark Reverser" who release a python script for removing DRM from Mobipocket ebooks. I feel like I need to find some way to thank Apprentice Alf for all his work. Thanks for the clarification I inadvertently added an extra layer of confusion.
