Speaking of breaking DRM for ebooks... anyone have any tips? I'm adamant about buying only ebooks from now on. The problem is that very few publishers provide their books in a DRM free format. O'Reilly is one notable exception. I won't be pirating my books, but I don't like the idea of being tied to one device or company (The kindle for example, or BN & their crappy nook). I want PDF portability.
Any suggestions? On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Dan Ritter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 06:31:54AM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > > There is a book I am interested in, and it is available in ebook > > format. I'm new to the ebook scene. What options are there to > > convert it to pdf if I want to view it on my linux laptop? I don't > > have any interest, at this time, of investing in an ebook reader (such > > as Kindle, etc). > > Most ebook formats are basically wrapped around HTML, or > something semantically equivalent. (It's not unusual to see a > ZIP archive with one or more simplified HTML files and one or > more JPEGs for covers and illustrations, plus a file carrying > the metadata.) > > Assuming there is no DRM or you can break the DRM, your options > are: > > 1. Use a general ebook-format reader on your Linux laptop, such as > FBReader. > > 2. Use a conversion program such as Calibre. > > 3. Look into the format and see what you can pull out. > > You are unlikely to have to get to (3). > > -dsr- > > > -- > http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. > You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
