Comment by criddell
18 hours ago
As I understand it, KoReader doesn’t work with drm protected books which means I can’t use it with most books I buy.
Ebook producers really should be forced to either drop drm or adopt a cross-platform standard.
18 hours ago
As I understand it, KoReader doesn’t work with drm protected books which means I can’t use it with most books I buy.
Ebook producers really should be forced to either drop drm or adopt a cross-platform standard.
It's probably too annoying for most, but I had a similar problem with KoReader and library books because those too depend on DRM. I ended up keeping KoReader as an app, then just not loading the app when I was reading a library book. It wasn't too bad.
KoReader also gave me a lot of freedom to manage the bad battery life of my Kobo Sage before it died of other causes. Definitely worth the extra cognitive load of dealing with the two experiences.
Search around, there's surely a way to break the drm. When theres no better way that's what I do too: pay for the book, convert to plain epub.
The publishing industry never got its head out of... some dark place. We've been able to buy mp3s without drm for ages, but somehow books are different.
If you have a ACSM (the file type Adobe Digital Editions uses for DRM) I’ve been using https://www.acsm-converter.com to strip the DRM and return a standard epub