Question for Bremen: Kobo books vs. iBooks

Lookout...PM coming your way.

Sorry, I did not realize you were on a Mac. The info in my post only applies to PC Windows. I have edited it now to state that. Sorry :(

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Originally Posted by Bremen

In the Kobo books that I have read in iBooks, the formatting was fine. The easy thing to do is get one of the free Kobo books and check it out..... that will give you a good idea of how well they will work.....

The main reason I buy from Kobo more than the others is their DRM is very easy to strip, they are already in ePub so no conversion needed, and their cost is usually lower than IBooks and equal to Kindle......

Also Kobo has a reader, but it is the buggiest app on the iPad I have ever seen.....

If Apple DRM were easy to strip (my understanding is at this point no one has cracked it yet) and their prices right I would buy from them simply for convenience sake.... but as it stands now, for me Kobo works the best....

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I was just looking at this and have a question. Have the pubs from Kob been exactly the same looking when used in iBooks as their iBooks counterpart? I ask because I tried using Kindle books in iBook (DRM stripped wnd converted) but it never looked the same as the iBooks book or as it looked in Kindle.

I of course have never bought a book from the iBook store. But, you had to convert the Kindle book to an ePub.... the Kobo books are already in ePub format so I would say they will look better. Converting from one format to another is not a perfect science, it is generally better to leave in it's "native" format if possible.

Well an easy way is to just test free books that are on both.

Question though, I am trying to find the scripts but can't seemed to find them. Can someone send me a PM on where they are located? I did find them a awhile back when I was testing this with Kindle but now I just can't seem to find them.

Actually I pretty much have it figured out but I can't seem to figure out how to view the key so that I can decrypt.

Sorry for the billion posts. I was able to get it all figured out.

I did test a free book from Kobo and the same book with iBooks. The decrypt Kobo book and put it in iBooks and it looked exactly the same.

I got everything working. Had to install pycrypto as well. Thanks for all the help!

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Originally Posted by Damiensmunki

I got everything working. Had to install pycrypto as well. Thanks for all the help!

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Glad it all worked out! I am sorry I also assumed you had the whole Python thing already...... I am adding links to Python, pycrypto and ADE to my original post, might help others....

I didn't need pycrypto to strip the Kindle books, but apparently it's necessary for ADE books. Also, it's very difficult to get pycrypto installed on OSX. I found this really helpful article, if anyone else is struggling with this:

How to Install Python and Pycrypto on Snow Leopard and PC | Dear Author