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The kobo.com sells lots of non-DRM eBooks! :blobaww:

However, they also sell lots of DRM eBooks, all mixed together with the non-DRM, and no filter to sort them out :blobcry:

This makes it very difficult to look for non-DRM books on .

So, to solve this problem switching.social presents the Unofficial Kobo Search page, which lets you find non-DRM books available on your country's Kobo site:

switching.social/unofficial-ko

Any feedback very welcome.

@switchingsocial
sounds like advertisement.. what is this kobo? why should i even buy anything from a company which supports drm? :confused:

switching.social @switchingsocial

@ajeremias

Kobo has the widest range of popular non-DRM eBooks, so being able to search through that non-DRM range is very useful. (By the way, it's the publishers that decide whether to use DRM or not.)

They also make nice eReaders that support the non-DRM ePub format. Kindle doesn't support ePub at all, probably because they don't want people sideloading books from other sources.

Basically, Kobo don't lock people down anywhere near as much as Amazon/Kindle does.

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@switchingsocial
cool nice to known :) its alway good to support 'our projects'.. very good clarification ;)

@ajeremias

You are right to be careful, they are a large multinational corporation and may change policies in future.

But that's why non-DRM files are great, because we aren't tied to the company that sells them 👍

By the way, if anyone's interested, there's also unofficial libre firmware for Kobo eReaders:

github.com/lgeek/okreader