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Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ereader@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android

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Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android

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Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ereader@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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I recently purchased a book for my MSC which was only available via a crappy Android app. There was no obvious way to decrypt it to read on a more sensible device, so I resorted to the ancient art of screenscraping. This is a quick-and-dirty way to grab images of the pages and convert them to a standard PDF using Linux. There's a lot more you can do to make the end book more useful, but this'll get you started Lots of Screen Shots With a USB cable plugged into my phone and laptop, I wrote a…

Cross-posted from “Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android” by @Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com in !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com


Some of you might have followed my earlier posts about the LCP ePub DRM. Here’s another one of Terence’s blog posts that I thought was great.

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