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Asked: 2012-04-04 04:51:50 +0800 CST

Is there an open source alternative to "Adobe Digital Editions"?

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For the moment I run Adobe Digital Editions under Wine to download ebooks burdened with ditigal restriction management. I only use it to open .acsm files supplied by ebook-shops, which contain authentication information required to download the actual DRM'ed ebook files, which I then transfer to my reader-device with calibre. My question is, if there exist open source alternatives to Adobe Digital Editions. They don't need much functionality. I just want to put the .acsm-file in and get the .epub out (no, I don't want to remove the drm, that'd be illegal afaik).

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    .acsm can only be used with Adobe Digital Editions and stands for Adobe Content Server Manager.

    For more information about Adobe Digital Editions please see http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/faq/

    Side note (may not be generally applicable to Digital Editions users): Stated in the agreement (may be of concern in making a program to access .acsm ) for Adobe Content Server section 11.1 you agree not to:

    (d) obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or Information through any means not intentionally made available through the Services;

    Interpret this as you will, I will not give you legal advice.

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  2. You can also use OverDrive which is a fairly reasonable ebook reader. You need to put in your Adobe ID to register it, and after that, it will open .acsm files and download the relevant ePub for you.

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