Comments on: FICTIONWISE ALERT: Please Read

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:25:36 +0000

You can copy the digital editions books, i Have mine backed up, but you cannot read them on another computer until you make it an authorized computer.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:24:03 +0000

I have ebooks in the Adobe Digital Editions format. It is through adobe. When you upgrade your adobe acrobat reader to version 8, you also have to down load adobe digital editions in order to read adobe ebooks. You can register up to five (I think) computers on which to read these drm books. However, I cannot afford a sony reader (don’t even know if they work on it) and I would like to read them on my iphone. So if I could strip the drm I can put them on my phone a as a regular pdf or an ereader format.

So if that makes any sense, is there a way to strip the drm from adobe drm (digital editions) ebooks? :-)

By: Azure

Azure — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:36:34 +0000

Thanks Miki! :) I searched for that the other day, but I must’ve been looking in the wrong place!

By: Angie

Angie — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:44:37 +0000

@30 Vanessa — I don’t know what Digital Editions is, but if it’s just a basic PDF file then it should be fully copyable. The easiest way to check is to try it. Make a copy of one of your Digital Editions e-books, onto a flash drive or something, and then try to read it. If it works, make back-up copies of all your books; that’s always a good idea. [nod]

Angie

By: Miki

Miki — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:35:56 +0000

@Azure: You might be interested in this site.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:23:21 +0000

Ok, so maybe someone can clarify this for me: I’m an amateur e-book buyer, and bought the ones I have in Adobe format, the Digital Editions thingy, only because that’s the only format I recognized lol I’m on a mac so I’m hesitant to dl anything that says Microsoft in it (idk, I feel like it’ll never work?).

So, if i wanted to copy my books onto a disc or a portable drive guy, is it possible? I figured I would just copy the thing into wherever I wanted it to go but it seems like my understanding of the entire download situation is flawed. :/

By: Azure

Azure — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:23:21 +0000

Linda–

It depends on what kind of DRM-d books you have. Are they MS Lit ebooks? Mobipocket ebooks? MS Lit files are easy to decrypt–there’s a program called ConvertLIT that will do it. Mobipocket files are tougher. I required an entire Sunday with the wonderful people at the MobileRead forums helping me to figure out how to strip the DRM from the Mobipocket books.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:57:33 +0000

@Azure: How do you strip the DRM? I have some DRM books I would like to be able to read on my handheld, which reads pdfs, but I can't read the DRM files on there, they are blank.

By: Azure

Azure — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:48:58 +0000

I’m trying to calm myself down about this problem by reminding myself that:

a) I’ve got all of the books I’ve bought from FW downloaded;
b) stripped the DRM from the books;
c) converted them to RTF files; and
d) backed the files up to three external hard drives and an online file storing place.

So really, I don’t know why I’m so worried. Maybe it’s just the whole idea of not having those files available in the format I want? Because as great as FW has been in trying to get all the files restored, they’re only going to be available in eReader format if I’m reading the situation right. I don’t have an ebook reader that can read those files, nor a computer program to strip the DRM from them. And if some disaster befalls my three hard drives and the online files, then I’m screwed.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:01:52 +0000

It sucks there isn’t some kind of notice about this on the FW main page & the only FW mail I got this week was about a “complete your series” promotion mailed on th 8th.