{"slug": "dedrm", "name": "DeDRM", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 5, "warners": 0, "score": 3.131, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-12-15", "latest": "2026-06-24", "why": "For reference for Kobo in particular: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "For reference for Kobo in particular: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/nodrm/dedrm_tools", "official_url": "https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["DeDRM", "DeDRM tools"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 778640496, "item_id": 48665031, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665031", "by": "dnlzro", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Liberate your e-books, my friend", "excerpt": "Liberate your e-books, my friend: https://github.com/Satsuoni/DeDRM_tools/discussions", "context": "", "use_case": "removing DRM from e-books", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"}, {"id": 758402576, "item_id": 47400161, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47400161", "by": "abound", "date": "2026-03-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For reference for Kobo in particular: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools", "excerpt": "For reference for Kobo in particular: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools I recently threw an LLM at it to turn the Obok plugin into a statically linked CLI in Rust, it works great.", "context": "", "use_case": "Removing DRM from ebooks", "switched_from": "", "story": "The enshittification of Amazon paperback books"}, {"id": 740543537, "item_id": 46283971, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283971", "by": "47282847", "date": "2025-12-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Calibre with deDRM is a must for me", "excerpt": "Is it? Calibre with deDRM is a must for me. I love Overdrive but cannot imagine to stick to the forced regime of lending periods and random waiting times. I also typically read multiple (sometimes dozens of) non-fiction books in parallel, plus one or two fiction. That just wouldn\u2019t work at all with digital lending.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["removing drm from e-books", "removing ebook drm", "removing kindle drm", "removing drm from ebooks"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662381", "title": "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747330", "title": "Kindle users in uproar re: latest update, old devices now unusable: 'Fuck You '", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678320", "title": "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385576", "title": "The enshittification of Amazon paperback books", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283016", "title": "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 778640496, "item_id": 48665031, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665031", "by": "dnlzro", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Liberate your e-books, my friend", "excerpt": "Liberate your e-books, my friend: https://github.com/Satsuoni/DeDRM_tools/discussions", "context": "", "use_case": "removing DRM from e-books", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"}, {"id": 764001504, "item_id": 47750094, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750094", "by": "MattPalmer1086", "date": "2026-04-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "used dedrm to move them to the kobo", "excerpt": "Yep. I moved off Kindle onto kobo several years ago. I would still buy books on Amazon if they were only available there, and used dedrm to move them to the kobo. That doesn't seem possible anymore, so I guess I just won't buy anything from Amazon now.", "context": "", "use_case": "Removing ebook DRM", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kindle users in uproar re: latest update, old devices now unusable: 'Fuck You '"}, {"id": 762870016, "item_id": 47679376, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679376", "by": "exe34", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Kindle+dedrm was an option", "excerpt": "Same here - I'll only buy books I can read on any device of my choosing. Kindle+dedrm was an option. https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/p/drm-free is another option I have used a lot. But if it's not available, I will go to the modern day library of alexandria. I will not pay for crap that will just stop working in a few years - a book can sit on my shelf for 15 years before I get around to reading it.", "context": "", "use_case": "Removing Kindle DRM", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"}, {"id": 758402576, "item_id": 47400161, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47400161", "by": "abound", "date": "2026-03-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For reference for Kobo in particular: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools", "excerpt": "For reference for Kobo in particular: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools I recently threw an LLM at it to turn the Obok plugin into a statically linked CLI in Rust, it works great.", "context": "", "use_case": "Removing DRM from ebooks", "switched_from": "", "story": "The enshittification of Amazon paperback books"}, {"id": 740543537, "item_id": 46283971, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283971", "by": "47282847", "date": "2025-12-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Calibre with deDRM is a must for me", "excerpt": "Is it? Calibre with deDRM is a must for me. I love Overdrive but cannot imagine to stick to the forced regime of lending periods and random waiting times. I also typically read multiple (sometimes dozens of) non-fiction books in parallel, plus one or two fiction. That just wouldn\u2019t work at all with digital lending.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"}]}