

Bad luck if you've got a Kindle: none of this will help you. epub format for their ebooks, so if you plan on using a library, this will help.
#ADOBE DIGITAL EDITIONS 4.5 ENCRYPTION SOFTWARE#
Also, I'm assuming that the ebook that you purchased was DRM protected by Adobe's Digital Editions software and is in the. Note that for this exercise, I'm using Linux Mint 14 (Nadia) XFCE. So please allow me to show you the right way to go about ensuring that you're in a position to get your freshly purchased ebook in a fit state to read if you are using a Linux PC. This time, I'm writing the little catches down, at least for me, if no one else. In the end, it's still a time consuming job, but just getting each of these wretched steps done was an effort in itself. Thus, there was a great deal of foul language as I faced error after error and glitch after glitch. Oh sure, there are plenty of web pages out there that have the steps, but no one seems to have the order right. It's a time-consuming and wasteful job, and it's made worse by the fact that I totally fluked it the last couple of times and then didn't write the steps down.
#ADOBE DIGITAL EDITIONS 4.5 ENCRYPTION CRACKED#
I've just spent the best part of the last couple of days attempting to try to load my computer with the usual fixes to ensure that my computer can have the DRM cracked off it, which is necessary for using Linux with DRM-protected ebooks. Only in the land of intellectual property law (and possibly high end encryption) does one find that the world is actually getting more complicated, rather than simpler. You'd be forgiven for thinking that the reason is merely the reality that desktop Linux users are the one percenters and that the system is biased towards Windows and OSX users, but it's actually more insidious than that – copyright has sabotaged any kind of simplicity here. Ebooks are still possibly the number one reason why I can find myself in the situation where I am likely to throw my computer across the room.ĭownloading ebooks and using them via Linux is a diabolically difficult, stupid and possibly legally dangerous situation. You'd think that in this 21st century world that we live in, there would be less issues with using any kind of media.
