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If you got the file via the Sony Reader Library application, it's in ~/Documents/My Books/Reader Library/.epub.

The next step is to locate in your Mac's folder hierarchy any Adobe EPUB e-book file that you want to strip DRM from: Alternatively, you can leave the DeDRM 'droplet' icon right on your desktop. I suggest you consider moving or copying the DeDRM 'droplet' icon to a folder you've created, named something like DeDRM Folder. Now you're ready to use the DeDRM script for real. At that point, the DeDRM script merely quits. So all you have to do in the dialog box above is click on No More. The only time you'll need to specify your own existing r key files is in a situation where you in fact have some older Adobe EPUB e-book files lying around, ones that were downloaded when you were using a different Adobe ID/Password combination than you currently use.ДЇor purposes of this post, I'll assume all your Adobe EPUBs were downloaded (possibly using Sony's Reader Library application) with an Adobe ID/Password combination that is still current. button at this point to tell DeDRM about them, one by one.Д«ut you don't really need to specify any previously existing r key files! DeDRM can generate the 'local' ADEPT key file you need on the fly for you.ДЄDEPT stands for Adobe Digital Editions Protection Technology, by the way. If you do happen to have any previously generated r key files, you can use the Add. These are key files that, again, you may have generated using a Python script, ineptkeymac_v1.py, as shown in Step 4 of iPhone: Reading Adobe/EPUB eBooks. The intention here is for you to specify any r key files that you may have generated previously. Option-drag it to the Desktop to make a copy of it there.В You can then (after possibly doing the setup I describe below) drag the icons of e-book files that you want decrypted and drop the icons on the DeDRM 2.0В droplet to have the e-books decrypted.ДЄfter you put the DeDRM 2.6 droplet on your desktop, you will see something like: A DeDRM 2.6В AppleScript 'droplet' should be the top item.

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Double clicking that file will expand the ZIP file into a tools v3.8В folder. It will normally (depending on how you have your browser set up) putВ the tools v3.8.zipВ file on your Desktop.

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A popup window will require you to wait a couple of minutes and then click on a second Download button. The link I just gave will take you to RapidShare, where you need to click on the Download button under Save File To. You can instead download tools v3.8В ZIP file from here. That's because DeDRM, as its author Apprentice Alf named it, is in the AppleScript scripting language.ДЄpprentice Alf, who wroteВ DeDRM, has gone into retirement, and his original blog post about it has been modified and no longer links to the DeDRM 2.6 download per se.

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Unfortunately, the new way is available only to users of Mac OS X 10.5 ('Leopard') and 10.6 ('Snow Leopard') but not to users of any Windows system. Now there's a way that is less complicated.

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I showed how to do that in an earlier post, iPhone: Reading Adobe/EPUB eBooks. Some of the books I have bought in the Adobe EPUB format, for instance, can't be moved to my iPhone for reading - unless, that is, I strip off the DRM encryption first.

DRM is copy protection it's intended to keep you from making a copy of your book and letting someone else have it.Д«ut DRM can interfere with uses of the book that are legal. E-books that you buy are usually encrypted with 'Digital Rights Management,' or DRM.

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