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How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

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Re: How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

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Post by EA-3167 »

sointeresting wrote: post #8

I bypassed it by buying a Kobo.

I appreciate the author's work, and they're absolutely right about the Kindle app. I'm with you though, I don't want to fight tooth and nail with Amazon to have the ability to read a book without their lousy app, to back that book up, and otherwise legally and fairly use it. I don't want to reward Amazon for being aggressively anti-consumer by spending money on their site, at least not for this.

Re: How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

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Post by boldlybold »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #3

I don't suppose this is going to work well with their comics/graphic novels, will it? I stopped buying ebooks from Amazon some time ago and switched completely to Kobo (and their much-more-easily-defeated DRM), but Amazon's acquisition of Comixology means they've still got by far the best collection of digital comics on the market.

Comics need a full "image" for the page, so this is unlikely to work. Can you inspect the requests and see what you get?

Or to the author: what happens to images in the ebook?

Re: How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

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Post by pixelmelt »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #3

I don't suppose this is going to work well with their comics/graphic novels, will it? I stopped buying ebooks from Amazon some time ago and switched completely to Kobo (and their much-more-easily-defeated DRM), but Amazon's acquisition of Comixology means they've still got by far the best collection of digital comics on the market.

I haven't gotten images working yet, they have some weird obfuscation applied to them as well

Re: How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

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Post by yesco »

wredcoll wrote: post #6

I personally have bought many fewer books over the last couple of years, from amazon, as they've made it harder and harder to, you know, read the books I've paid for. Pirating books is not hard. They're probably the smallest possible thing that people are interested in copying with the broadest variation in acceptable formats. I know I'm screaming into the void, but if I'm paying real money why is the experience from…

To stop you from pirating ofc!

Re: How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

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Post by gruez »

boldlybold wrote: post #13
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #3

I don't suppose this is going to work well with their comics/graphic novels, will it? I stopped buying ebooks from Amazon some time ago and switched completely to Kobo (and their much-more-easily-defeated DRM), but Amazon's acquisition of Comixology means they've still got by far the best collection of digital comics on the market.

Comics need a full "image" for the page, so this is unlikely to work. Can you inspect the requests and see what you get? Or to the author: what happens to images in the ebook?

If all you need is an image, can't you just use browser automation tools to screenshot each page? After all, much of the content is in images so it's not like you need it OCRed for accessibility purposes.
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