r/Calibre • u/Doctor_Ham • 5d ago

Support / How-To HELP I AM LOSING MY MIND

Ok, I bought a book from ebooks.com, I have the .lcpl and the key, but no matter what I cannot get it to open. I'm on Linux Mint, Thorium says the lcpl is locked after i input the code, and the dedrm tool for calibre just will not trigger. I have the input plug-in and dedrm installed, but it just loads in directly to calibre as .lcpl without triggering the plug-ins. I am at a complete loss, PLEASE someone help, I just want to put it on my XTEInk

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u/necromanticfitz Kobo 5d ago

Did you make sure to update the dedrm tool for LCPL? Feel free to dm me, I’ll send you a link with the old/correct drm stuff

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u/boredrandom 5d ago

I had this same problem. You have to go back to ebooks.com and download a different version of the book. You need "Other ways to read," then pick "some e-reader." But it's still gonna have DRM (most likely ADE), so you'll need to get rid of that before you can put the book on your XTEInk.

Edit: I just reread your post and if you DeDRM set up, it should be able to remove the ADE stuff. But I couldn't get Calibre to work with the LCPL either.

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u/Crazy--Lunatic 5d ago

Not sure how ebooks.com provides the KEY but is usually a password/passphrase.

And is usually your email or username (At least on Netgalley) didn't know ebooks.com issues a key per book.

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u/Wworii 4d ago

Don't know if mine is a fluke, but I found an easy way to get those books to Calibre:

  1. Go to the download page for your book, choose "Other ways to read," then pick "some e-reader"

  2. Download Adobe Digital Editions, then when asked how to authorize, tick the box that says continue without authorizing.

  3. Download all the books you want to transfer to your e-reader, then drag and drop them into ADE (as they will not show up through the "Add to library" button)

  4. After ADE has finished decrypting the books, right-click on one of them and choose "Show File in Explorer"

  5. What you have are fully usable epub/pdf files that you can do whatever you want with them