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From Apprentice Alf's Blog
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Barnes & Noble/Fictionwise eReader, .pdb
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Barnes & Noble’s .pdb eReader format is one of the survivors from the early days of ebooks. Internally, text is marked up in PML – Palm Markup Language. This makes conversion to other formats more difficult.
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Barnes and Noble .pdb ebooks use a form of Social DRM which requires information on your Credit Card Number (last 8 digits only) and the Name on the Credit card to unencrypt the book that was purchased with that credit card.
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There are three scripts used to decrypt and convert eReader ebooks.
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The first, eReaderPDB2PML.pyw removes the DRM and extracts the PML and images from the ebook into a folder. It’s then possible to use the free DropBook (available for Mac or Windows) to compile the PML back into a DRM-free eReader file.
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The second script, Pml2HTML.pyw, converts the PML file extracted by the first script into xhtml, which can then be converted into your preferred ebook format with a variety of tools.
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The last script is eReaderPDB2PMLZ.pyw and it removes the DRM and extracts the PML and images from the ebook into a zip archive that can be directly imported into Calibre.
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All of these scripts are gui python programs. Python 2.X (32 bit) is already installed in Mac OSX. We recommend ActiveState's Active Python Version 2.X (32 bit) for Windows users.
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Simply double-click to launch these applications and follow along.
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