Ebook Deals
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This community is inspired by but not connected r/ebookdeals on Reddit.
Its purpose is for readers to share deals that they find on the web for ebooks through well-known retailers. Additionally, if you are an author and have an interest in posting a notice when you have a price drop coming up, please feel free to let us know, and we can include yours as well. Please avoid self-promotional posts without first contacting somebody on the community management team.
Spam, referral, shortened, and affiliate links are not allowed as this is not a community designed to allow members or mods to make money on their deal findings. Links must be as close to vanilla hyperlinks as possible for the retailer. Links must be cleaned or trimmed of tracking information or when posting or they will be removed.
Please limit posts to time-limited discounts of non-public domain items. Books that are at a permanently low price are great, but not appropriate for this community. The same goes for republishings or cleanups of public domain books.
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You can download books from your kobo to your pc when downloaded to the device, but if it's a book with DRM then you won't be able to do much beyond having a backup.
From the website, if with DRM, you will download a link that you can only open with (I believe) some adobe DRM software. You are not downloading the book.
Only if you buy drm-free from them will you be able to download and use / transfer your books. They supposedly have a dedicated section for that, but it's messy and doesn't show all drm-free books ; the way I do it is by searching for the keywords "At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software" which will show me all of them.
Now Calibre has a plugin to remove the drm, it works 99 times out of 100.