Hi everyone!
I bought some books from the Kobo store and they come with Adobe's DRM (ADE). I tried using the noDRM plugin (10.0.10 and some other fork 10.0.20) with the latest version of Calibre, but it didn't do anything. Then I tried downgrading to something like 8.7, still the same. Downgrading even further resulted in some Python versions mismatch and I couldn't be bothered to resolve it. Trying oboK threw errors because it needs (?) the Kobo desktop program. Trying the ACSM plugin seemed promissing as it was able to create an anonymized ID, but importing the files yet again didn't do anything... No errors, nothing.
Is there anythign else I could attemp besides booting into Windows?
Thanks!
Python versions can be installed and managed by a tool called "pyenv" if you want to go further down that road.
Calibre also often needs specific plugins for different kinds of DRM. May be worth a search based on the eBook origin, in case you're missing a simple extension that could solve it.
I also find that searching the web for "book title DRM free" usually results in a link to download a free DRM-free copy of the file.
It's almost as if the DRM was a complete waste of everyone's time and resources.
PSA: old kindles are losing support. Use Calibre to load books instead
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