When seeing this title, you will wonder what the VitalSource VBK DRM removal is, why I need a vbk ripper.

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You purchased a book from Vitalsource, and you are forced to use Vitalsource bookshelf app to view and download this book. By default this book will be saved with '.vbk' appended. Download macos mojave free. But soon you found that the reading experience with bookshelf (especially on android) is really crappy (quite annoying and slow), then you would like to use other programmes such as iBooks to read your Vitalsource etextbook. But what's worse, after you import the .vbk file into your iBooks app on iPad, you will find your iPad doesn't support this format!

Jul 22, 2019 Click on the attachments for a downloadable version of these LMS-specific Quick Start Guides. Don't have an LMS integration with VitalSource? There's a Bookshelf-only version, too. Click on the attachments for downloadable versions of this and other LMS-specific Bookshelf Quick Start Guides. If the VitalSource Bookshelf will not launch, try completing the following steps based upon your computer's operating system.

In this guide, I will explain what the .vbk format is, why we need to remove DRM from vitalsource VBK, and also introduce 3 powerful Vitalsource drm removal tools (based on my test and experiment) so that you can remove DRM from vitalsource bookshelf books fast and lossless. It removes DRM from Vitalsource .vbk files and helps you get DRM free PDF or ePub eTextbooks.

Method 1: python scripts -- If you are familiar with python or code
Method 2: ebook-converter vitalsource drm removal -- If you want to convert vitalsource EPUBBook to regular ePub
Method 3: Epubor Vitalsource Downloader -- The most effortless and cost-effective tool

What is .VBK File

VitalBook format .vbk files are DRM protected eBooks purchased from VitalSource. In other words, if you bought one book from Vitalsource store, it will be .vbk file. In fact .vbk file is only readable for Bookshelf app, which is the default and unique reading app for vitalsource ebooks.

Where could I find the downloaded .vbk book files? In general, Bookshelf will download all purchased vitalsource eTextbook in 'VitalBook Library' folder.

(Win) UsersPublicDocumentsShared BooksVitalSource BookshelfVitalBook Library

(Mac) /Users/Shared/Books/VitalSource Bookshelf/VitalBook Library

Tips: If you can't find the paths, please open the VitalSource Bookshelf on your computer, in the library select one book and right-click on it, then choose ' (Reveal in Finder on Mac).

But in this part what I most want you to know is, .vbk is not a regular format of eBooks but just the container format. It's just with .vbk extension which lets us and vitalsource know that the book is from vitalsource.

Now there are currently 2 distinct categories of book formats that can be contained by the .vbk file: Reflowable Text VitalBooks (EPUB) and Page-Fidelity VitalBooks (PDF).

We are not so strange to epub and pdf because they are the most 2 popular and widely used eBooks formats, right? EPUB format's feature is we can easily adjust the font size no matter the size of the screen. PDF format's feature is it keeps the look and feel of a bound book (the text is fixed). Both types of eBooks in Bookshelf app are with .vbk extension.

If you asking me how to recognize out which vbk file is a PDF or which one is an epub, I will recommend you visit the 'Product Details' page for the title you read from vitalsource.com store.

For example here I want to bought this book for learning 'Publication Manual of the American', after I visited to this product details page, I saw this highlight from the 'eTextbook Features' as following image shows.

If you can see the 'Fixed Layout' from the 'eTextbook Features' area, it says that the truly eBook format of that book is PDF, while if you see the 'Reflowerbale' it says that it's an ePub format. Of course both of these 2 formats are saved as .vbk file after you syncing them via Bookshelf app.

A new method (and easier) to tell if the vitalbook is a PDF or an ePub.

Since the Bookshelf version 7.6.1 and later, the bookshelf itself will also tell us which the vitalsource original eBook format is. No need to check them from the product page.

Open your VitalSource bookshelf, select 'My Book' and click the 'Details'. Keyscape r2r 2048 key generator download.

Then it will pop up a new small window from the right side, which shows you the book format, book vbid, url, etc.

If it says 'epub', this means that book is EPUB format; If it says 'pbk', this means that book is PDF format.

Why We Need VitalSource DRM Removal

As what I explained above that the first feature of the vbk files is that they are DRM protected by Vitalsource unique technology, which prevents us reading vitalsource books freely on other devices or apps, for example, reading vitalsource books on Sony Reader, Kindle, or iBooks. We paid so much money (you know the price of the text book is not so cheap) to purchase a book to learn something new and useful, but finally we found that what we bought is not belong to us! This really hurts us too much, isn't it?

We all know that the downloaded vbk files in fact are epub and pdf, but the result is that we can't open them on other devices we owned though these devices also supports epub and pdf well. This is a paradox!

As my own opinion, the final most important reason that urges me to use a vbk drm removal is that, neither vitalsource ePub nor vitalbook PDF allows me to print Vitalsource ebooks all pages at once. According to the publisher settings, some books can be printed 10 pages at a time, some are restricted to just 1 page at a time. If I have a tool to remove the DRM limitation I can bypass the print limit as well.

Method 1: Remove Vitalsource DRM with Python Script

This tool is only for those readers who are familiar with Python and computers. If not, please skip this part.

Step 1: Install Python 3.6

Firstly you must make sure you have installed the Python 3.6 tool on your computer.

Step 2: Run the vitalripper.py

Once the python downloaded well please open a command terminal on your computer and type --

pip install requests lxml fpdf pillow

Once finished please also donwload vitalripper.py file to your computer and save it somewhere.

Then navigate your command window to where you saved the file, and continue to enter the command prompt --

Email and password are your Vitalsource account's email and password. The book number is the unique book number of your purchased book and you can find it by following steps:

Visit vitalsource official page, log in with your own account, select 'My Bookshelf', select the book and click on book cover to open it.

In this case the number 9781911531081 is my book number.

Update: From VitalSource Bookshelf version 7.6.1, we can also find the VBID from book by clicking on 'Details'.

Once finished the commanding you will soon get your VitalSource eText book drm removed, they will be saved as a PDF file (many images included). Please remember that this tool only for vbk PDF format books, not for reflowable ePubs.

Note: This method was first provided and share here: Vitalsource to PDF reddit.

Method 2: Remove VBK DRM with Vitalsource Converter Pro

When searching on the Internet to find an easy-to-use tool to help us remove DRM from .vbk files, you will soon find this ebook-converter Vitalsource Converter Pro.

This tool works for not only PDF but also ePub, helps convert these 2 formats to PDF, DRM free.

This is a shareware but here I just used the demo version for testing.

When I start the software, I'm requested to input the vitalsource account email address and password. Then it take several seconds to list my library (at first what I see is blank, I guess it takes time to read my library data), soon I see what I want. Click on the book cover to open one book, the s

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