Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?

[Barry Drake]

On 28/11/12 10:24, doug livesey wrote:
How did the one from Barnes and Noble work? Did you have to extract it 
from a horrible proprietary e-reader, or was that just available for 
you to convert?


It's so long ago I can't remember the details.  I paid for it and 
downloaded the file from the B&N website and it was in a proprietary 
format with DRM locking.  I just searched around until I found a way of 
unlocking it and used Calibre to convert it.  From memory, I think the 
original was in epub format for Kobo but I could be wrong.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?

[Mark Einon]

On 27 November 2012 23:47, doug livesey  wrote:
> Is the geek gestalt aware of anywhere where I can buy the latest books in a
> form that I can then either read on the Kindle, or convert to read on it?
> Cheers,
>Doug.

Hi Doug,

There's Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) for a massive
collection of books that are out of copyright, and I also know that
any http://oreilly.com/ books are DRM free if purchased through their
website (and their Amazon versions too).

Cheers,

Mark

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?

[doug livesey]

How did the one from Barnes and Noble work? Did you have to extract it from
a horrible proprietary e-reader, or was that just available for you to
convert?


On 28 November 2012 10:13, Barry Drake  wrote:

> On 27/11/12 23:47, doug livesey wrote:
>
>> If you can buy EPUB books, and then have access to the actual file, it's
>> pretty trivial to then convert that to the Kindle format. However the
>> problem I've had is even getting to the actual file.
>>
>
> I don't seem to have the problem you have.  I use Calibre with the un-DRM
> plugin so if I buy books from Amazon they are converted automatically to
> mobi and I back them up.  I've bought thousands of good books on DVDs from
> e-bay sellers and have even bought a book from Barnes and Noble and
> un-DRM'd it and converted it to mobi ... so I'm really no seeing the
> problem.  There seems to be a hack available to make any format work OK.
>  Oh - I never have the Kindle wi-fi turned on - if I buy a book I download
> the file to my desktop 
>
> Regards,Barry.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?

[Barry Drake]

On 27/11/12 23:47, doug livesey wrote:
If you can buy EPUB books, and then have access to the actual file, 
it's pretty trivial to then convert that to the Kindle format. However 
the problem I've had is even getting to the actual file.


I don't seem to have the problem you have.  I use Calibre with the 
un-DRM plugin so if I buy books from Amazon they are converted 
automatically to mobi and I back them up.  I've bought thousands of good 
books on DVDs from e-bay sellers and have even bought a book from Barnes 
and Noble and un-DRM'd it and converted it to mobi ... so I'm really no 
seeing the problem.  There seems to be a hack available to make any 
format work OK.  Oh - I never have the Kindle wi-fi turned on - if I buy 
a book I download the file to my desktop 


Regards,Barry.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?

[James Morrissey]

Hi Doug,

I am not sure exactly what you mean by access to the file, but since you
are talking about readers, have you tried Okular (http://okular.kde.org/)?

Best,

James.


On 28 November 2012 08:16, Alan Lord  wrote:

> On 27/11/12 23:47, doug livesey wrote:
>
>> Is the geek gestalt aware of anywhere where I can buy the latest books
>> in a form that I can then either read on the Kindle, or convert to read
>> on it?
>>
>
> Does this article help?
>
> http://arstechnica.com/**gadgets/2012/10/drm-be-damned-**
> how-to-protect-your-amazon-e-**books-from-being-deleted/
>
> Cheers
>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?

[Alan Lord]

On 27/11/12 23:47, doug livesey wrote:

Is the geek gestalt aware of anywhere where I can buy the latest books
in a form that I can then either read on the Kindle, or convert to read
on it?


Does this article help?

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/10/drm-be-damned-how-to-protect-your-amazon-e-books-from-being-deleted/

Cheers

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