• MultiplexerEnglish
    9·
    8 days ago

    Nice as it is, unfortunately it will be of little help in normal life.
    Typical you’d like to read a specific book and then want to know which store offers it DRM-free (and is also shipping to your country…), not the other way around.

    So I am still stuck with my old routine:
    Search a couple of the bigger sites that sell ebooks to where I live, check if the desired book’s store pages say “DRM-free”, or at least some unobtrusive DRM technique like watermark only.

    And if it’s not available DRM-free anywhere i looked, at least I have done the best I could and feel not guilty about setting sail instead…

    • brisk@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      I have absolutely no idea how comprehensive it is, but Calibre has a book search that shows DRM free as a filterable column.

  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    That’s really amazing! I can’t buy DRM ebooks, because I don’t wanna give up my old tolino reader.

    • Auster@thebrainbin.orgOP
      4·
      8 days ago

      First time hearing about this “Tolino eReader”. Does it not allow user-supplied files, even with potential OS modifications?

      If it doesn’t, though, I’d still suggest stocking up on DRM-free ebooks, both for when you can use them, and to be another person voting with the wallet to show there is space in the market for DRM-free contents.

      • MultiplexerEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        At some point the certificates on the device just run out.
        I don’t know about the Tolino, but my two readers (a Sony and a Pocketbook) are both more than 10 years old and are not capable any more of using any new DRM books because their certificates have now long expired…

        • Auster@thebrainbin.orgOP
          1·
          8 days ago

          In case it wasn’t a typo…

          DRM ≠ DRM-free

          DRM is used for validation. DRM-free is the lack of DRM.

          If the certificates are for books you’d get from their approved stores, still that shouldn’t affect PDFs and the sort you get from Humble Bundle, Itchio, etc.

          • MultiplexerEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            But… that’s what I said…
            Devices stop working for DRM books, as the device’s certificates have run out.
            Same probably with the old Tolino mentioned above - only usable with DRM-free stuff now.