Reading without LingQ is doable, even with paper books, but having the reader support is terrific benefit.Īlso, note there are services on the Internet which will take a 'dead tree book', cut the spine for you, scan and OCR the entire thing. Success! Not all smooth sailing and much poring over an initially daunting and confusing workflow and a forest of version numbers (all of which proved irrelevant in the end) but a good outcome as soon as I'd found my way.įeel free to share this for OS X Digital Editions 4.x and Calibre 5.x users.īeta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.Right, using LingQ as an assisted reader is far easier and quicker than using a secondary dictionary, even with good popups (on my phone & pad) like Linguee, Oxford, and Google Translate (app) or in some of my ebook readers. Open Apple Books for iOS on my phone, the newly-converted book imports automatically (I have sync Books across devices set up).Drag the converted and DeDRM'd file into Apple Books and open it to check, it appears fine at first glance.

Click the link to the resulting converted file in Calibre.Choose EPUB for the format (top right) and hit 'okay' (bottom right).Nothing in the Calibre interface or help docs explains how to go forward from here, so select my book and click 'convert Books' in Calibre.Read the DeDRM guide, which mentioned also installing Obok, but Obok files are in a parent repo and have no zip file, so it's hard to see what to download.Delete and re-import my book into Calibre 5.8.1 from the Adobe 'Digital Editions' folder on my computer.Install the DeDRM plugin by choosing the downloaded zip file 'DeDRM_plugin_7.0.3.zip' (or the latest release) which contains everything - the plugin now appears in the Calibre list of plugins on restart.

OS X 10.14.6.Īim: remove DRM from a 2020 published book, downloaded and opened in (the awful and almost unreadable) Adobe Digital editions 4.5.11.

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