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Re: Show HN: DRM-Free Books

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Post by kreyenborgi »

Bookshop.org lets you filter by drm when you search.

https://www.bloomsbury.com has drm free stuff, and after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42811332 i respect them even more.

Also might be worth scanning old mentions of such https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Re: Show HN: DRM-Free Books

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Post by TeaVMFan »

kreyenborgi wrote: post #13

Bookshop.org lets you filter by drm when you search. https://www.bloomsbury.com has drm free stuff, and after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42811332 i respect them even more. Also might be worth scanning old mentions of such https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The bookshop.org filter works nicely. After searching for a keyword, pick "Formats/Ebook/DRM-free". I'll add a link and a note.

Re: Show HN: DRM-Free Books

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Post by bentley »

kreyenborgi wrote: post #12
babblingfish wrote: post #2

I don't see any mention here of books sold by Tor. All their books are DRM-free.

Can one buy Tor books without going through Amazon? I had trouble doing that last I tried.

I’ve bought Tor books from Google Play and gotten DRM‐free EPUB files from it.

Re: Show HN: DRM-Free Books

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Post by bluebarbet »

technothrasher wrote: post #6

> DRM-free classics that are out of copyright. I started down this road with a few books about two years ago, and I have so many now on my list to read that I hardly ever get to reading a modern book. I read a lot from Standard Ebooks. But one thing to keep in mind with them- they do edit the books to make changes for readability. Not necessarily a big deal, but something to know.

Same. Ironic that a quirk of modern technology would put classical literature back in fashion.

Re: Show HN: DRM-Free Books

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Post by rickcarlino »

I wish someone would build something like hiring.cafe but for DRM free digital content. One search query => uniform search results with direct link to purchase page on relevant marketplace. Basically just scrape and index every DRM free content marketplace and put it behind a single search interface.
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