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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 21:42:26 UTC Robert McNees

   For fans of Terry Pratchett, or the Pratchett-curious, there's a Humble Bundle right now with 35 Discworld books (epubs through Kobo) for around $20. Pay more to donate more to charity.

   https://www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-pratchetts-discworld-harpercollins-encore-books

   • rob (robparsons@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 21:44:07 UTC rob

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     @mcnees "Sorry, this promotion is currently unavailable in your area." Gnyaaarrgghhhh.

   • phi1997@mastodon.social's status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 22:30:14 UTC phi1997

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     @mcnees
     Are they DRMed? Last time there was a Diskworld Humble Bundle, there was DRM on the ebooks

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 22:57:20 UTC Robert McNees

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     • phi1997

     @phi1997 If you look on the Kobo page, at least some of them (haven't checked all) are provided as ePubs with Adobe DRM (which is removable with the right tools).

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 23:00:09 UTC Robert McNees

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     Looks like this bundle is US only, though some folks told me it was no problem using a VPN to get it (and then download the books from Kobo). The ePubs have the usual Adobe DRM that comes with many (all>) HarperCollins ebooks on Kobo.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 23:02:19 UTC Robert McNees

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     Also, the Dark Horse Mignolaverse Humble Bundle is back. I got this one the last time around and it's great.

     For $18 you get almost all the BPRD books, and if you spent $30 they throw in most of the Hellboy books. Mostly high res pdfs, with some (DRM-free) ePubs for the novels and short stories.

     https://www.humblebundle.com/books/mike-mignolas-bprd-dark-horse-encore-books?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_3_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2_c_mikemignolasbprddarkhorse_encore_bookbundle

   • James aka "Baldy" (justabaldguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 00:33:27 UTC James aka "Baldy"

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     @mcnees THE TURTLE MOVES

   • David Brownman (xavdid@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 01:05:20 UTC David Brownman

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     • mhoye

     @mcnees @mhoye remember to adjust the distribution amounts!

   • millennial falcon (falcennial@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 01:22:20 UTC millennial falcon

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     @mcnees ah I see it not available in my location, which is earth. bugger.

   • івась тарасик (tivasyk@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 01:48:49 UTC івась тарасик

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     unavailable in canada. oh well, fsck humble bundle since they stopped doing linux bundles and started dishing out drm.

   • Cowboy Who? (billyglennhoya@libranigans.com)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:25:19 UTC Cowboy Who?

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     @mcnees are they DRM'd?

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:25:19 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Cowboy Who?

     @BillyGlennHoya Looks like it. Adobe DRM, which can be pretty easily removed.

   • Margret Kuarell (greensofshade@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:51:20 UTC Margret Kuarell

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     @mcnees no VPN :/

   • Ride Theory (ridetheory@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:51:38 UTC Ride Theory

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     @mcnees At that price, it's tempting to buy a used Kobo and just make it the dedicated #TerryPratchett machine.

   • Fabien (fabienmarry@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 05:52:07 UTC Fabien

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     @FreakyFwoof USA only sadly

   • Claudius Link (realn2s@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 12:26:49 UTC Claudius Link

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     • Falk Stern

     @mcnees
     If you don't want to jump through the hurdle of using an VPN (i indeed don't see the bundle from Germany) you can get various bundles of Terry Prachetts books from
     https://thrillerandhorror.com/products/complete-works-of-terry-pratchett

     Largest is 42$ for 60 books (but nothing to charity 🫤)

     Shout-out to @falk_ die pointing it out

   • Jonathan Hartley (tartley@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 14:56:08 UTC Jonathan Hartley

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     @mcnees For Linux people: I just bought this bundle. They have DRM. I installed the Kobo desktop app on Linux using Wine, to download all the DRMed books. Then installed noDRM's "obok" plug-in to Calibre, pressed the toolbar button it adds, and it magically found my books and my decryption key (even though they were hidden somewhere inside a wine install), and it added everything to Calibre with no DRM. Fabulous.