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Flimm • yesterday at 12:01 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

The eBooks in Kobo's store are also locked down with DRM.

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WolfeReader • yesterday at 4:18 PM

Only some are. At the bottom of each book's store page, you can see if a book is DRM-free. And if it is DRM-free, you can download an ePub.

Example: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/gardens-of-the-moon

They've been doing this for YEARS before Amazon.

jabroni_salad • yesterday at 4:01 PM

Yes, but Calibre can get the files onto any other device with a drag and drop operation, which is not the case with the newest version of Amazon DRM.

aidenn0 • yesterday at 7:58 PM

Tor and Baen are two publishers that have been offering DRM free books on Kobo for a while.

syntaxing • yesterday at 4:09 PM

Sure, but you can load any file onto the device.