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Kougeru



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2026 4:26 pm Reply with quote
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With LCP DRM System
these platforms will never learn lol. consumers will refuse to use DRM platforms as they rightfully should. DRM means we don't own what we're paying for and that's a no-go
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BalmungHHQ



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2026 5:33 pm Reply with quote
What do you mean? The LCP literally gives you the freedom to read on different apps and such, even outside of the Bookwalker ecosystem. It's way more free than how it was before, when you could only read your Bookwalker stuff on Bookwalker. That's the point of switching to LCP.
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Vaisaga



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2026 10:44 pm Reply with quote
Is there a reason why the website isn't actually linked in the article? All the links go to past ANN articles.
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Kan2Screm



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2026 12:13 am Reply with quote
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Japanese content will remain on the existing website and app.


That's an honest shame, considering most of the library on my account is comprised of JP volumes that I got for free whenever some campaign took place...
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hessbri



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2026 10:22 am Reply with quote
The new website is an absolute trash heap unfortunately. So many bugs, so much missing functionality. They really should have delayed again and just waited until they were done instead of this "we will get to it eventually". The new site is essentially useless for now Sad
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Folkstad Ohm



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2026 2:10 pm Reply with quote
A minor correction: The official name of the LCP DRM scheme is "Licensed Content Protection", not "Lightweight Content Protection". The official specification is at readium.org.

To add to this: There are at least two independent ebook readers on which you can read the new LCP-DRMed BookWalker titles, Thorium Reader and FBReader. You can export the needed file from the BookWalker web page on which you're reading the manga or LN volume; use the ". . ." menu in the upper right and select "LCP-protected EPUB".

This doesn't actually download the manga/LN itself; instead it downloads a ".lcpl" ("LCP license") file that you can then open into a reader that supports .lcpl file import. The reader will then download the manga/LN and decrypt it for display; you'll need to provide your BookWalker userid, a 16-character string starting with "USR_" that you can find on one of the settings pages.

Thorium Reader also lets you save a copy of the (encrypted) EPUB file, so with that, the .lcpl file, and your BookWalker userid you'll have a complete backup of that particular manga or LN volume in case BookWalker goes out of business. (Of course, doing this for hundreds of purchased books is a challenge, which will hopefully be addressed in future.)
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samuelp
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2026 3:09 pm Reply with quote
Folkstad Ohm wrote:

Thorium Reader also lets you save a copy of the (encrypted) EPUB file, so with that, the .lcpl file, and your BookWalker userid you'll have a complete backup of that particular manga or LN volume in case BookWalker goes out of business. (Of course, doing this for hundreds of purchased books is a challenge, which will hopefully be addressed in future.)


Yeah, we'll actually be adding a way to download/import your entire library at once pretty shortly.
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Zhiroc



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2026 1:19 am Reply with quote
The new phone app is an absolute disaster.
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