How to unlock ebook
Removing DRM Locks From eBooks
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everybody what's going on it's Mack here
welcome back to another new video today
we're doing something that kind of sits
on a moral gray area so let's go ahead
and get started first thing that you're
gonna need is a web browser open to a
few different apps the first thing
you're gonna need is a tool called
Calibri calibre Calibri you know what
let's what's getting a little bit of an
assist here mmm maybe anyways this is a
fairly well-known tool this is just a
good like ebook management tool and then
the next thing is a tool from a guy on
github apprentice apprentice Harper and
this is a tool that he's built to you
know DRM so download both of those right
now we're at version 6.6 dot 3 if you
see anything newer obviously get that
but if you just download this zip file
here it's gonna have the proper files
for every platform next thing we need is
an actual book with a DRM lock so the
first I just went to Amazon like the
Kindle book store and grabbed the first
free book that I saw it's pretty easy to
get a book with a DRM lock just buy or
download any book from Kindle Store
Apple books Google Play Books there are
very few big ebook vendors that aren't
gonna get that are gonna give you books
without at the rme lock if you're
interested though there actually is one
it's called open books there's a link to
it straight from the Calibur home page
okay so this is a legitimate place to
buy books without a DRM lock but
presumably if you've been buying ebooks
for any amount of time you already have
quite a few of them have a DRM lock so
we're gonna go ahead and drop this book
into the app here and it's gonna sync up
like there's we can totally use this
book with calibra and just use it to
send to other kindle devices but I feel
like kind of the whole point is to
convert it and be able to send it to
multiple devices so if we do try to
convert it it's gonna Oh immediately we
get a little ding here
hey this is this is locked you can't do
that let's go ahead and implement our
our new tool here
DRM tools if we go ahead and unzip our
zip file here open up the folder we're
gonna have plugin for calibre a Mac app
and a Windows app what we want is gonna
just be the calibre plugin then we're
gonna get another zip file go ahead and
do that then we get d drm plugin and a
folder with a whole bunch of app files
next thing that we want to do open up
calibra calibre I really don't know how
to pronounce it at all
come here we're gonna come to
preferences it's gonna be similar in PC
or Linux just look for preferences or
settings or something and if we scroll
down to the bottom we're gonna have an
option plugins and then we want to do
you load plug-in from file and what do
you know it's gonna be pretty
no-nonsense from here I'm just gonna go
and track down that plug-in one more
folder there we go
select the containing folder not any
specific file within it hit open maybe I
don't know what I'm talking about oh you
know what it is I think it's actually we
just need the zip file and some plugins
as security risk yes DDR and we have to
restart calibra for this fact ok yeah so
we didn't even need to extract the
folder that's that's my bad there we
just need that zip file inside of it and
that's how they don't want to install so
we're gonna go in hit apply close and we
need to do a restart of Calibra here so
I'm just gonna quit out of it and we'll
open it back up and just a second here
come on there we go okay so now we've
still got our book added in here and if
we go ahead and try to convert it one
more time and let's see here it's
shouldn't yeah it's still not gonna work
until we do one last little bit here so
come up to Calibri go to preferences and
then we'll find our plugin for drm
there's our app and what we need to do
is customize plugin and now we have a
couple of options for configurations
there are a number of different vendors
which this can break DRM locks from
Barnes & Noble Kendall
Doby so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
say Inc Kindle e-books that's what this
is and we need a serial number for a
Kindle
so this is fairly easy to track down you
can just google hey how do I find my
serial number for insert device no
Kendall iPad with iBooks or whatever and
then all you're gonna want to do is hit
add and it's gonna give you a spot to go
ahead and add that serial number okay
I'm gonna close and do all that hit
apply close out of that and then we
might have to restart the app one more
time it don't know but we'll go ahead
and try and just do a convert here
convert to ePub okay
okay yeah we're good so now we can edit
any of the metadata for this and send it
to whatever device we want we can export
it drop it to into Google Books we can
use it with apples book app which is
pretty great so here at the end of the
video I wanted to clarify something like
I said this is a little bit of a gray
area and it is but I'm not actually
showing anyone how to steal books case
in point if I pirate a book tour in it
download it somewhere it's presumably
not gonna have a DRM lock on it that
wouldn't be very useful to me to begin
with so in order to have a book with a
DRM lock you had to have bought it
somewhere in the first place this is
more about just wanting to have control
over a product that you've already
bought for example I have a Kindle
paperwhite and I read on it relatively a
lot but why can't I also have all of
those books on an iPad or an iPhone or
why can't I put them on a nook
I don't know if anyone's still using
nooks but if I wanted to have my entire
library on an oak and a candle why isn't
that theoretically possible actually a
funny story about the nooks I used to
work at a Barnes & Noble well for a
little while I did and we had like these
four nooks on display and people are
coming in they already are like no one
wanted ever want it to buy a nook
because just Kendall was the thing I
feel like and then Noakes kind of came
around
as barns and almost trying to compete
with Amazon and then it was like it just
feels like a knockoff you know it's like
it's like when everyone was first
getting smartphones and they're like the
cool people that like the galaxy or the
iPhone or whatever and then everyone
else got just like the kind of generic
like $20 Android phone it was very
obviously just a knockoff it was garbage
it's like dad I feel like that's
everyone's perception of the Nook but
anyways we had these four nukes on
display and there was this one there was
like gears towards kids it had no power
like no memory it was still using like
Android
I don't know frickin like lollipop or
something it was it was garbage
and towards like the last few months
that I worked there the thing just
stopped working I tried everything I
could to get it to work again so we're
sitting there we had the nukes on
display and 25% of the ones on display
just didn't work wouldn't turn on total
black screen no one ever bothered to
replace it as far as I know so that's my
pitch for everyone to go ahead and buy
nuke it's a superior product anyways
that is all for this video thank you
everyone for checking it out and I will
see you in the next video
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