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A community for the discussion of topics surrounding DRM, Digital Rights Management.
All media that DRM can be applied on can be discussed here, for example books, movies, music or games.
Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures, such as access control technologies, can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. DRM technologies govern the use, modification and distribution of copyrighted works (e.g. software, multimedia content) and of systems that enforce these policies within devices. DRM technologies include licensing agreements and encryption.
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Guides and useful tools
Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android
2025 Guide for freeing books from Amazon (after D&T was removed)
Guide to Removing DRM From Amazon Kindle E-Books
Liberate your Kindle books before leaving Amazon (Tutorial)
How to setup Calibre to remove DRM from ebooks on Linux/Archive mirror
Guide on removing DRM from Kobo & Kindle eBooks (reddit mirror, Archive link)
Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub
DeDRM tools for eBooks: a plugin for Calibre for removing Adobe DRM, Obok etc.
Calibre eBook Management
Miscellaneous links
DRM - Frequently Asked Questions by DefectiveByDesign
Guide to DRM-Free Living by DefectiveByDesign
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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...
I have absolutely no idea how comprehensive it is, but Calibre has a book search that shows DRM free as a filterable column.
Saving the comment to check later. Never explored Calibre too much. ๐