Removing DRM Locks From eBooks

[Music] 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 [Music] you

Channel: MAKC

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Keywords: Mackenzie, Criswell, Rendaa, Studios, Motion, Mile, Livingston, TX, Texas, Motion Graphics, Web Design, Graphic, After Effects, Photoshop, Atom, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Code, Learn, Tutorial, Guide, Instructions, UX, book, ebook, google, apple, ibook, calibre, deDRM, lock, torrent, open books, adobe, mobi, kindle, epub, aw3

Id: ee3SNDOgTmI

Length: 8min 17sec (497 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 17 2019