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DeDRM tools for ebooks
19 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2022-01-10 · latest 2026-03-16
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For reference for Kobo in particular: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools I recently threw an LLM at it to turn the Obok plugin into a statically linked CLI in Rust, it works great.
comment by abound · 2026-03-16 · in The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books -
…in Calibre and it worked fine then at least. Seems this is the repository for the plugin: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools For downloading the files themselves, I think I ended up using this: https://github.com/treetrum/amazon-kindle-bu…
comment by diggan · 2025-03-21 · in Calibre 8.0 -
…https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29870151 The repo came back, but without the readium DRM code: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/blob/master/DeDRM_plugi...
comment by captn3m0 · 2025-03-17 · in Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub -
…and then copy the key over to the Linux install of calibre. This is what I do on my Linux machine https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools
comment by sphars · 2025-03-17 · in Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee -
…books to my PC then strip the DRM - so I can read the same book on both the Clara and Kindle. See: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools I'd say that the initial awkwardness is from deliberately not connecting the Kobo or Kindle to the…
comment by HansardExpert · 2024-10-17 · in Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more -
…you're allowed to remove DRM from content you've purchased (a license to) for personal use. [1]: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools
comment by kemayo · 2023-11-23 · in The Bitter Reality of Ebooks and the Kindle Model -
…for a couple years. Apparently, this is the current version, approved by the original maintainer: https://github.com/nodrm/DeDRM_tools
comment by hanche · 2023-10-19 · in DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019) -
…try (no connection to it but it seems to be one of the most recently usable, trustworthy versions) https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools
comment by southernplaces7 · 2023-10-19 · in DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019) -
…the "Download book to your computer" function and then run it though the DeDRM plugin for Calibre. https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools That way even if Amazon decide to no longer host the book (so you can't redownload them) or go back on…
comment by Crosseye_Jack · 2023-03-23 · in Book publishers won't stop until libraries are dead -
…best to switch to noDRM's fork[1] [0]: https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools [1]: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools
comment by sphars · 2023-03-04 · in Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase -
…terminal Like most great cli tools, its about the workflow [1] https://github.com/wustho/epy [2] https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/ [3] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all
comment by youngNed · 2023-02-24 · in Burgr – Books in Your Terminal -
…they can. At the very least, try downloading and de-DRMing all the books you received from them: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools
comment by alwayslikethis · 2023-01-06 · in Twilio’s toll fraud problem -
https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools
comment by 2OEH8eoCRo0 · 2022-12-28 · in Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround -
…longer contains the code needed to remove DRM from LCP-encrypted books. (Quote from the FAQ) [0]: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/blob/master/FAQs.md#why... This is the file that was removed: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmVoHkQ7AY…
comment by captn3m0 · 2022-01-11 · in NoDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is back -
Snapshot for posterity https://web.archive.org/web/20211231150220/https://github.co...
comment by SSLy · 2022-01-10 · in noDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is disabled due to Readium's DMCA notice -
…noDRM is actively promoting the activity of cracking both library loans and one-off purchases: > https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/issues/2#issuecomment-9... > This departs from the policy of the user [private], from which noDRM has…
comment by hvdijk · 2022-01-10 · in noDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is disabled due to Readium's DMCA notice -
…down? Please provide URLs for each file, or if the entire repository, the repository’s URL. ... https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools > the content of the repo was illegally obtained. The repo and its forks must be shut down entirely. > I…
comment by mindslight · 2022-01-10 · in noDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is disabled due to Readium's DMCA notice -
You can still download the repo off archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20211231094826/https://github.co... Click the green Code button, then Download ZIP.
comment by RKearney · 2022-01-10 · in noDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is disabled due to Readium's DMCA notice