Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com Dusk @lemmy.world 12 mo. ago

Ebooks question

I recently updated my kobo devices and saw that there’s a Google drive option now for storing books elsewhere, for the time being I’ve just been using calibre and moving files over myself, would there be any concerns to host non drm ebooks from mam on a Google drive if I’m only sharing it with like one person.

Cheers^^

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As long as your Drive folder is not made public and gets accessed by many people, you should be fine.
Make sure to make backups outside of Drive though, in case Google decides to delete your files.
You won't have any issues, I have been using Calibre and uploading to Google Books for years. If there is DRM on the epub files, Google Books will alert you. In this case, just process/convert the epub in Calibre to an epub file. Calibre will remove any DRM.
- Oh that’s really good to hear, I imagine there’s an option to auto remove drm on import on calibre, I’ll take a look later
You'll be fine so long as you aren't getting mass downloads of copyrighted material from your account.
- It’ll probably get traffic like once a month from like one user so I imagine it’ll go right under the radar
  
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  I mostly just wanna test it tbh
you'll be fine unless to share the drive, which makes me think, is there any ereader related communities around ?
- I’ll probably just stick with the way that works but having a way to sync for people would be nice
  
  do you get any benefits from using callibre instead of just copying the files in a folder ? I used to do it but found it way more convenient to just copy them directly since callibre doesn't create collections
you'll be fine as long as you don't share the drive and that it not going to be picked up as such by google anti-csam crawler, which makes me think, are there any ereader related communities around ?

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