{"id":585,"date":"2018-03-17T22:55:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T04:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=585"},"modified":"2020-07-22T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:52:51","slug":"dedrm-and-macos-high-sierra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"DeDRM and macOS High Sierra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Should you need to remove DRM from a rented library book for a bit past your due date, the following should help.<\/p>\n

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  1. Download the current version of DeDRM from\u00a0Alf<\/a> (6.5.5,<\/del> 6.6.1<\/del>, 6.6.3<\/a><\/del>, or newer — see UPDATE 3, below).<\/li>\n
  2. Unzip the downloaded DeDRM tools file<\/li>\n
  3. Open the application at the following location DeDRM_tools_6.5.5->DeDRM_Macintosh_Application->DeDRM.<\/li>\n
  4. Click “Select Ebook…”<\/li>\n
  5. Now open a browser and rent a book from your public library.<\/li>\n
  6. When it is available, download the book – I typically go for the ePub, which is viewable in iBooks or Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 or newer on a Mac.<\/li>\n
  7. A file with a .acsm might be downloaded from the library, double-click this file to open it in Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 or newer.<\/li>\n
  8. Inside ADE, an ePub of your book will be downloaded from the library and it will expire in a set number of days. Right click the book inside ADE’s library and select “Show File in Finder”.<\/li>\n
  9. When this book is shown in the Finder, drag it to DeDRM’s file select window (Step 4) titled “Please select a DRMed ebook” and then click “Choose”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Success. A copy of your rented book will be stripped of its DRM and saved in the same directory as Step 4.<\/p>\n

    ** UPDATE #1 ** 6.5.5 and 6.6.1 are not launching on macOS 10.13.6. Will look further into this.<\/p>\n

    ** UPDATE #2 ** I never looked further into the above situation, but 6.6.3 is working fine for me on macOS 10.13.6.<\/p>\n

    ** UPDATE #3 ** Catalina breaks compatibility. Calibre is the workaround. Haven’t tried this myself, but download Calibre and then run DeDRM as a plugin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Should you need to remove DRM from a rented library book for a bit past your due date, the following should help. Download the current version of DeDRM from\u00a0Alf (6.5.5, 6.6.1, 6.6.3, or newer — see UPDATE 3, below). Unzip … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}