Interesting Links for 29-09-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Labour left vow fight-back after Starmer speech

(tags:labour politics uk )

2. Old, labyrinthine, bookshops are still magical

(tags:books shopping viaSwampers )

3. Too many people don't know that your period being two weeks late can mean you're legally past abortion limits in many US states

(tags:abortion pregnancy time )

4. Reminder that you don't actually own any movies or TV you "buy" from Amazon (or Google, or most other providers).

(tags:movies drm Amazon OhForFucksSake animation )

5. What did the Bank of England do to bonds yesterday and why?

(tags:economy economics uk doom )

Comments

[snippy]

Thank you. I read on an iPad using the nook app (so presumably downloading ePubs). My MacBook Pro has a USB port so presumably I could connect the one to the other and attempt to download the ePubs. But then how do I remove the DRM so I can back up those books?

[bens_dad]

DRM does not stop you from copying or backing up your books (although machines that use DRM may also try to stop you from finding the files in the first place) !
What DRM does is stop you from *reading* them on another device.

I don't *think* an ePub can have DRM - my understanding was that was the whole point. However a glance at the webpages about kepub files on Kobo devices suggests that they can.

The usual (but not always the only) answer to removing DRM is Calibre plus a plugin which supports the particular DRM used in each of your books, as Andrew Ducker and ChannelPenguin have suggested.

I do not get on with Calibre, because it wants to take over my ebook collection and I am a command-line-loving Aspie who needs to be in control of the computer.

There are ways to remove the DRM in bulk, so 350 books should not be 350 times the effort, though there may be a few that are much harder than the others.