The set includes tools to remove DRM from eReader PDB books, Barnes and Noble ePubs, Adobe ePubs, Adobe PDFs, and Kindle/Mobi ebooks (including Topaz).
This ReadMe_First.txt is meant to give users a quick overview of what is available and how to get started.
If you are a calibre user, the quickest and easiest way to remove DRM from your ebooks is to open the Calibre_Plugins folder and install each of the plugins following the instructions and configuration directions provided in each plugins README file.
From the DeDRM_for_Mac_and_Win folder, drag the DeDRM_X.X.app.zip droplet to your Desktop. Double-click on it once to unzip it to create the DeDRM X.X.app droplet. Double-click on the droplet once and it will guide you through collecting the data it needs to remove the DRM.
From the DeDRM_for_Mac_and_Win folder, fully extract the DeDRM_WinApp_vX.X.zip. Drag the resulting DeDRM_WinApp_vx.x folder to someplace out of the way on your machine. Open the folder and make a short-cut from the DeDRM_Drop_Target onto your Desktop. Double-click on the short-cut and DeDRM will launch it will guide you through collecting the data it needs to remove the DRM.
***This program requires that Python and PyCrypto be properly installed***. See below for details on which versions are best.
There are a number of python based tools that have graphical user interfaces to make them easy to use. To use any of these tools, you need to have Python 2.5, 2.6, or 2.7 for 32 bits installed on your machine as well as a matching PyCrypto or OpenSSL for some tools.
On Mac OS X (10.5, 10.6 and 10.7), your systems already have the proper Python and OpenSSL installed. So nothing need be done, you can already run these tools by double-clicking on the .pyw python scripts.
Users of Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4, need to download and install the "32-bit Mac Installer disk Image (2.7.X) for OS X 10.3 and later from http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.1/
On Windows, you need to install a 32 bit version of Python (even on Windows 64) plus a matching 32 bit version of PyCrypto *OR* OpenSSL. We ***strongly*** recommend teh free ActiveState's Active Python version. See the end of this document for details.
Some additional tools are also provided in the "Mobi_Additional_Tools" folder. There are tools for working with "Kindle for iPhone/iPod_Touch/iPad", finding Topaz ebooks, unpacking Mobi ebooks (without DRM) to get to the Mobi markup language inside, and etc.
There is also an "ePub_Fixer" folder that can be used to fix broken DRM epubs that sometimes re provided by Adobe and Barnes and Noble that actually violate the zip/epub standard.
We do **NOT** recommend the version of Python from python.org.
The version from python.org is not as complete as most normal Python installations on Linux and even Mac OS X. It is missing various Windows specific libraries, does not install the default Tk Widget kit (for guis) unless you select it as an option in the installer, and does not properly update the system PATH environment variable. Therefore using the default python.org build on Windows is simply an exercise in frustration for most Windows users.
