I've been able to strip the Kobo DRM out of a couple of book bundles using Calibre. Haven't bought this one yet, but I'd assume there wouldn't be a problem.

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes and yes. They use a couple of different drm schemes and you might need an adobe digital editions login for anything using the older one. The newer one doesn’t need anything special.

[–] weariedfae@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Good to know, thanks!

[–] griD@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago

GNU TPratchett

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Not in Canada, it’s not.

[–] Dharkstare@mastodon.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

@YurkshireLad I hadn't noticed that. I just checked the other book bundles and didn't see any restrictions so I'm guessing it has something to do with this bundle coming through Kobo which would be odd since Kobo is a Canadian company.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

Not Canadian anymore, Indogo sold them to Rakuten.

[–] BadlyDrawnRhino@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago

Not available in Aus either, and other Kobo bundles have been. Probably a publisher issue.

[–] QuikxSpec@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Could you use a vpn and buy it?

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You could access the website, but I'm unclear on how the payment process works. Would canadian credit cards not be identifiable as being from Canada?

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Billing address might mess that up

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

I could ask a family member in England to buy it for me.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Not in Canada, it’s not.

Y’arrr… there’s an answer to that.

[–] passepartout@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://archive.org/details/discworld-complete-43-books-by-pratchett-terry-z-lib.org

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

And for those of us who can afford it, the bundle is a great way to loosely support the actual author (or his estate, in this case). No shade thrown at any book sharing because that’s what libraries are for.

[–] alex@jlai.lu 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that just the metadata?

[–] passepartout@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nope, theres a .rar file with 61mb.

See https://archive.org/download/discworld-complete-43-books-by-pratchett-terry-z-lib.org

Or https://ia802203.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/34/items/discworld-complete-43-books-by-pratchett-terry-z-lib.org/Discworld%20Complete%20%2843%20books%29%20by%20Pratchett%20Terry%20%28z-lib.org%29.rar

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Just found out from that other Lemmy thread? Haha

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

E-books are...fine. But there's something about physical books that really appeals to me. I just don't get the same experience when reading off a screen. To me, physical books vs e-books are like eating a real strawberry vs chewing strawberry flavored gum and I can't fully explain why.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Same but I still prefer eBook/PDF quite a lot. I like it for my text books so I can easily make copies and not carry as much. But paper feels more at home for fun reading.