epy VS DeDRM_tools

Try Epy CLI Ebook Reader

Hey there here is baca, epy's lovely sister. Built using the awesome textual project.

However, if you don't need all the bells and whistles of Foliate and Koreader, and you are willing to carry out some trials and errors, consider exploring other simpler options like epr/epy, in Linux you can use any terminal of your choice, whereas in Android probably you'll be better off using Termux (a simple pip install epr-reader should do).

Sure, i use epy[1] and every month i d/l my books from amazon that i have bought, dedrm[2] through calibre and save the epubs to a folder. Its not a particularly arduous task.

When i want to read i have an alias setup along the lines of:

epy "$(fzf)"

its a nice interface ;-)

Now i don't often read full books in the terminal, BUT i do like being able to reference bits that i remember at a VERY quick speed. I recently was talking to somoene about biases we bring to statistics and could remember reading a great anecdote about it, using rga[3] i was able to bring up the passage VERY quickly in the terminal

Like most great cli tools, its about the workflow

[1] https://github.com/wustho/epy

I used to dislike ebooks until I started using epy. Reading on the command line made it more enjoyable to read some technical books, especially since it can vertically split alongside vim or a console.

In the book section, I would recommend adding epy by the same author as epr. It’s an updated version with more features

From desktop open source TTS systems, I found mimic closest to being useful, and my preferred EPub reader (epy) can use it.

Here is cli one, worth a try: https://github.com/wustho/epy

I would substitute dateutils for 17 and wordgrinder for 3 instead of pdd and abiword. Also, p7zip instead of 20, zip and unzip. For calendar (18), I like gcal which could also be used as 29, reminder. For a nice TUI ebook reader, I like epy.

epy or Foliate on desktop. Really there are so many ways to read EPubs!

Here is the download page for DeDRM Tools v10.0.9: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/tag/v10.0.9

legal reasons? Seriously, has the DRM mafia cowed people so much? What the hell is wrong with sharing public software tools with others?

Here's one option you might try (no connection to it but it seems to be one of the most recently usable, trustworthy versions) https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools

I think either one would be fine. I know pocketbook prices are better especially in the used department. If you do go with the era I suggest keeping your kindle and use calibre. I'm not sure if you can just move the books straight to your pc or not so with calibre you should be able to access your ku books, remove the drm with this plugin, and then put those books your the pocketbook era.

The Calibre plugins you need are DeACSM and DeDRM.

after having downloaded the books you want through the kobo desktop software, use calibre and the obok dedrm plugin (downloaded books get detected automatically) to remove the drm and get standard epubs you can use anywhere https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases

Yes it's drm protected just download this deDRM plugin extract it and add to calibre https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools

In general, Kobo is probably the best option. Google Play Books would likely also work well. B&N also works, but the process of removing their DRM is more of a pain these days, since they got rid of their old non-Windows Store PC application. With any of them, you can use the software here to remove their DRM (in most cases, using it as a plugin via calibre). And once, you've removed the DRM, you can use calibre to convert the books from epub to mobi or azw3 or whatever you need to get stuff on your Kindle, since Kindle doesn't support epub like everyone else.

i download my kobo books through the pc software, then remove their drm with calibre and the dedrm plugin ( https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases ). it auto detects your downloaded books, removes the drm and adds them to your calibre library