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Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

There's a new way to liberate purchased Kindle books from Amazon's DRM.

https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

A few points to note:

* Hardcoded to the .com store, but trivial to change to .co.uk
* Uses OCR - so some odd / annoying mistakes - especially around punctuation.
* Every line is wrapped in a `<p>` element - which breaks reflow.

But, other than that, remarkably capable. Once you've got your session token, it only takes a couple of minutes to get an ePub.

#Kindle #DRM #DeDRM #eBook

Cats with power tools

How I Bypassed Amazon's Kindle Web DRM Because Their App Sucked

As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
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Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

Here's the difference between the original web version (image 1) and the OCR'd version (image 2).

The comma has become an apostrophe and the period a mid-point.

The italic text size has been boosted.

The centre alignment doesn't work.

For an alpha - this is mightily impressive!

Uncentred and weirdly formatted text.
Uncentred and weirdly formatted text.
Uncentred and weirdly formatted text.
Centred and nicely formatted text.
Centred and nicely formatted text.
Centred and nicely formatted text.
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