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+Adept protocol analysis
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+Trying to find a way to buy ebooks with Linux.
+
+Since I'm on Linux, I can't use Adobe's Digital Editions software
+that is required to decrypt the .epub files bought at nearly all ebook
+stores.
+
+To solve the problem, I'm trying to understand the network protocol used by
+Digital Editions and implement it myself. In the end, I want to be able
+to buy books online and read them on my ebook reader that does not support
+Adobe's DRM, without using Windows and Digital Editions.
+
+
+
+
+History
+=======
+- Adobe has a Linux port of Digital Editions since 2007, but never
+  released it:
+  
+  http://forums.adobe.com/message/1230686#1230686