Hi all,

I hope i’m allowed to ask this, but i was wondering; do you buy your ebooks free from DRM? If so, where can you buy them, preferably globally?

EDIT: thank you all for your valuable comments, it’s much appreciated! Have a great weekend :-)

      • lycanrising@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 years ago

        it’s a plugin but it’s not too hard to configure. just a pain to download the files and copy them over.

    • Papanca@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      3 years ago

      I checked but on the website it explicitely implies it doesn’t remove the drm restrictions?

      **Why does calibre not support DRM? ** calibre is open source software while DRM by its very nature is closed. If calibre were to support opening or viewing DRM files it could be trivially modified to be used as a tool for DRM removal which is illegal under today’s laws. Open source software and DRM are a clash of principles. While DRM is all about controlling the user, open source software is about empowering the user. The two simply can not coexist.

  • IonAddis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 years ago

    I want to say that Tor Books releases DRM-free ebooks by default, and most of the authors I like these days are published via Tor. (And Tor being a SFF imprint is relevant to this sub.)

    So I kind of get DRM-free eBooks by default.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 years ago

    I only buy DRM-free books, and I buy them from Bookapy. Small shop, relatively unknown authors, but some of them seriously good. I recommend Alan Steiner’s “Intemperance” series.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 years ago

    If there is a DRM free version of anything I use or need, I go out of my way to buy it. Otherwise I dont buy anything I use or need.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

    Most public libraries have a very extensive collection of ebooks that can be borrowed.

    Though I greatly prefer physical books. The sole exception is technical things that then let me search for what I need

    • Papanca@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      I love physical books, but i prefer to buy them only when i know i will love them. So, books that i don’t know at all, would accumulate quickly and take up unnecessary space if it turns out i don’t even like it that much. Good point about the library, thanks!

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        I get it, also there’s some convenience with readers when you’re in a place you’ll read… alot… but, yeah. I’d certainly go broke if my reading list was satisfied with buying them, instead of visiting the library.

  • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

    I always try to buy physical copies of books. I will not buy a book with drm.

    I’d rather get a physical copy sent to my parents house in the us and then find a digital Copy without drm. That way everybody wins.

    (I don’t live in the US and it can be hard to find some books.)

  • moipe@lemmy.world
    62·
    3 years ago

    The books I buy don’t typically have D’s that need their R’s M’d. If you know what I am saying.

  • Chenzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

    I recently found out that my local library has ebooks available to borrow via cloudlibrary - https://www.yourcloudlibrary.com/

    I suspect many other libraries of people here do the same. They don’t have everything, but, they have enough and you can use your phone, computer or kindle or whatever to borrow and read them.

    It’s been great… and free

  • bobgray123987@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    I have in the past, but I just do not have time to read right now. So I mostly listen to audio books that I get from Audible while I work.

    If I do read, its work related and not for pleasure. Which sadly I’m behind on.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
    1·
    3 years ago

    I don’t know where to buy them DRM free, but I can usually buy a DRM book from Amazon kindle, for example, then just download the DRM free book from a website like oceanofpdf.org

    • Papanca@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      So, this is a website where you proof you bought the book legitimately and then, they remove the DRM software for you? Or do i misunderstand it? How much would they charge for this?

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 years ago

        It’s a piracy website, but if I’ve already payed for the book legitimately, I don’t feel bad about using it.

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      3 years ago

      Anywhere that’s not Amazon, assuming the publishers are not being assholes. Usually between the American and the British edition you can almost always find a DRM free epub version.