I was able to download some textbooks a while back but they never stayed permanent and I guess had some sort of DRM that made them expire after 14 days.
anybody have any way to get around that and download books from the Internet archive to keep permanently without issue?
I would just use one of the other download sites listed in the megathread but none of them have the book that I’m looking for. TIA
Alright so here is what you need : -
Steps: -
- Download the file from internet archive
- Install ADE
- Import the downloaded file into ADE. ADE makes a DRM protected version of the downloaded file and stores it on your computer.
- Install Calibre and DeDRM plugin for calibre
- Find the file created by ADE and import it to Calibre. Calibre removes the DRM protection from the file and creates another version of the book that is not bound by a time limit and can be easily shared/stored/uploaded.
You can then read the book without the hindrances of borrowing. Hope this helps! Let me know if you need help, and if this is too much to take in, just send me a DM and I’ll remove the DRM for you.
This fork is more current: https://github.com/nodrm/DeDRM_tools
The original is no longer maintained and this is the recommended for in that repo.
Thank you for letting me know! I’ll edit my og comment.
No worries, I just found out recently myself.
thanks so much, I really appreciate the help!
Legally the internet archive isn’t allowed to let you keep books forever and I don’t think there’s an easy way to keep them. Whatever books you’re reading can be obtained through other means though, it doesn’t need to be from Internet Archive.
thanks! I checked all the CSE’s and various book websites and none of them have the book that I need. Thanks anyways though!
awesome, thanks!
Scrolled too far down before seeing this. Was about to mention it myself. Also first comment on Lemmy!
Internet Archive archives now have DRM
Like, what’s even the point of having them, then? Not much of an “Archive”, are they? Didn’t expect IA of all places to get enshittified.
yeah it’s really sad. Had to just deal with checking out my textbook on an hourly basis last semester, but that wasn’t very reliable
The hourly ones can be scraped from IA if you flip through all the pages in the online interface and use a cache viewer for your web browser. Then you have to stitch all the images together into a pdf.
I may have to look into this. What do I have to do specifically to bring up the cache viewer for the browser?
I did something similar it sounds like to rip movies off of soap2day.to
You need a piece of software to do it. I know of one for chrome and for Firefox, so depends on your browser. Saw how to do it on a reddit post a year ago or so. Its always a pain to find again.
EDIT: here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/fm1xpw/internet_archive_borrowing_picture_books/
