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Yeah, not only does Adobe provide a DRM solution, seems like their reader doesn't even properly work.
Another reason to dislike Adobe: I'm using Linux and reading on an old Kindle Paperwhite i recently put KOReader on. Since i don't want to support amazon anyway I'm trying to buy books directly from authors, or if that doesn't work, from other book stores. The problem? Most ship the books using "Adobe DRM", meaning you get a *.acsm file, supposed to be opened with some Adobe tool to download the book you bought. This tool is of course not available on Linux, and even if it were, why not just provide the file directly?
There is acsmdownloader which works fine, but again, i have to jump through hoops to download my bought book (my bad for actually wanting to support authors i guess...). Sadly, this format of ebook delivery seems to have become the standard nowadays. Thank you Adobe...
Thank you to Tor Books for actually providing their files without DRM, though! At least one publisher seems to be doing it right.
Baen library was one of the first (older than amazon!) To let you buy and add ebooks drm free. And any format too.
I had some of thier books on an old palmpilot.
Never heard of it, i'll check it out, thank you!
Yeah hate that problem. Tend to just get the epub from "somewhere" and then buy the book and never download it (or donate to the author directly if they have that option). Saves a lot of time, but is ridiculous. I just want to read the book i just bought...
Right? We have money. Letme read my book on whatever platform.
You can install an older version of ADE on Linux via WINE!