For Linux users who want to remove DRMs from ebooks they've legally purchased, so as to read them on the ebook reader they've also legally purchased for their intended purpose: I've updated my setup to replace using #AdobeDigitalEditions through wine with the simple and marvelous libgourou library.

Details here:

https://amrhaps.net/english/post/2025/07/13/Adobe-Digital-Editions%2C-Linux%2C-and-DRMs%3A-Updated-again

With thanks to @mart1oeil who told me years ago this should be possible

Conhecem a #BibliON?

Lançada em 2022, só a descobri ontem, graças a um post do @orbita

Trata-se da #BibliotecaDigital do Governo de SP que, além de #livros, traz também #períodicos, como #revistas e #jornais (inclusive estrangeiros). Estes últimos podem ser visualizados tanto na diagramação original quanto no "Text View", que é um modo de leitura mais adaptado à web.

Nos livros, há limitação de "exemplares" para empréstimo (seu número total é um tanto nebuloso, visualizamos apenas a quantidade de "cópias disponíveis"). Há sistema de reserva.

Por outro lado, nos jornais não há essa limitação e acredito que supre dois públicos: aqueles que sofrem com o #paywall e também para os que são "soterrados" pelo "hard news" e preferem algo mais "auto-contido" e organizado.

Sincroniza grifos e notas com o app BibliON, que conta com recurso de texto para fala.

OBS: Há no site um "baixar para #AdobeDigitalEditions ", mas não sei se está disponível no Brasil. Seria uma chance de usar o serviço no meu velho iPad

Há Clubes de Leitura também.

Salvo engano, permite acesso de usuários de outros estados.

https://biblion.odilo.us

The #UX of #AdobeDigitalEditions is a catastrophe. I cannot use this shit for reading a book. Do you have any recommendations or experience on how to get rid of the #DRM stuff within the PDF?

Just a "page-break-inside: avoid; break-inside: avoid;" declaration.

I wish more e-reader apps (ahm, #FBReader for Windows) adhered to these. #AdobeDigitalEditions--I don't know if I should be surprised or not--respects it though, but I don't find this e-reader app particularly useful for everyday use. It's annoyingly slower than FBReader, it's pretty basic, and it always insists to add the eBook in its library, no matter how many freaking times you say 'no.'

@bookstodon
I use #Linux as the main OS on my computers, but also use Windows 10 on one.
For the sole reason to download the #ebooks I buy.
I play the occasional Windows-only game as well, but those I can do without.
I can't do without ebooks.
I really, really wish there was an open standard for getting any ebook, with or without #drm, onto any device without having to rely on a single piece of software from one company.
#EU, do something!
#DailyRant #PetPeeve #ADE #AdobeDigitalEditions

The recent #enshittification of #Amazon #Kindle (no backup and sideloading of your books) spoiled my weekend.

Trying #Kobo first [not Kodo!], since I can reinstate pre-orders for imminent masterworks from @mjohnharrison and #NickHarkaway.

#AdobeDigitalEditions and #Calibre work well together on PC. Even better, loading stuff into the Kodi iOS app is way easier than Kindle. (I read mostly on the phone.) So I can start the new issue of @InterzoneMag while waiting for Royal Mail. Thanks Amazon!