Kobo does a good job of providing unprotected EPUBs when a publisher asks for it. They just download via the Kobo web site directly as EPUBs, with nothing else required.
For older out-of-copyright stuff, the “publisher” in that article is the problem.
David Harrison 🇨🇦
npub107…5r2cl
2026-06-01 16:21:04 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…md66
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