Before anyone suggests Calibre to rip the DRM: that's not legal and Calibre is a barking dog of awful software.
I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been something better - although creating a tool to bypass DRM is probably not a good idea.
I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been something better - although creating a tool to bypass DRM is probably not a good idea.
Calibre is an ebook library manager. It's clunky in some ways, but I'm not sure what better options exist.
https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/dedrm-tools-6...
It's like buying an iphone and then jailbreaking it: I'm all for it, but it does not change the reality that you have just financed apple practices to the tune of hundreds of dollars. For ebooks the sums are much smaller, and clearly compromising if there is no alternative more acceptable, but the problem remains.
And, sorry, I think your argument about legal | not legal is bunk. If someone has bought an eBook, they help themselves to a pirated copy -- in some ways, that's best of both worlds. It would be quite nice if one could just buy a non-DRM from the get-go, but whatever.