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When quarantine started, archive.org removed the limits on how many people can borrow an ebook, allowing anyone to read high quality scans online at anytime for free.
Does anyone know if they'll ever return to the old way?

>> No.18561478
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18561478

>borrow an ebook

>> No.18561485

What are you talking about? I didn't knew that. How does that work?

>> No.18561513

>>18561485
Basically, the Internet Archive scans a bunch of books, ancient texts as well as contemporary. They're usually high quality scans. Obviously, the contemporary stuff isn't in the public domain, so they can't let you see it for free. Instead you could "borrow" it for 14 days, and only five people in the entire world can borrow a book at once, thus bypassing copyright laws. When the quarantine started, in a show of good faith so normalfags won't go bored out of their minds staying at home, the Internet Archive removed all restrictions on borrowing: you know longer need to wait to borrow a book. This is a lot faster than torrenting or pirating a book, as well as a higher quality.

>> No.18561533

>>18561478
Lmao seriously

>> No.18561568

>>18561513
But you can't borrow it and use it to take notes on your computer. You have to use their thing.

>> No.18561604

>>18561463
the old way being the quarantine way or pre-quarantine? because I believe they reintroduced the waiting lists after they got in trouble with the big publishers... though maybe it's five people at the same time as you said (because I thought it was only 1 before), and I do see books being waitlisted less often. Also they introduced one-hour borrows which I don't think has a user limit; at first I thought this would be much more inconvenient but it's actually not that bad and has it's upside if there's no user limit. Still, I noticed some books are only one-hour-borrowable, and not 14 days anymore; while some books don't show up in the search anymore (only on openlibrary) or are only accessible to people with disability access...

>> No.18561605

>>18561513
There are simple ways to download borrowed books to your PC. Even those that are given "only for 1 hour". Some of us are sitting right now and dragging all the books in a row. Then they will put it on torrents and libgen. Very comfortably.

>> No.18561732

>>18561478
yes its boomers forcing us into this faggotry

>> No.18561751
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18561751

Where can I access all of these if I believe in freedom and not asking permission?

Is there a what.cd or redacted of books?

>> No.18561848

>>18561751
Read the sticky

>> No.18561932

For downloading 1-hour-borrow books, you can follow these steps:
- First, borrow the book you want from archive.org. Then type the following URL in a new browser tab (don't press enter yet!): https://archive.org/services/loans/loan/?action=media_url&identifier=XYZ&format=pdf&redirect=1
- Then, replace "XYZ" in the url with the file identifier. E.g. in https://archive.org/details/talesfrommalgudi0000nara the file identifier is "talesfrommalgudi0000nara" (without the quotes). And replace "pdf" with "epub" if you want the epub file.
- Finally, press enter to download the .acsm file. You can now proceed to decrypt the .acsm file as usual.

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18562121

Use the de-DRM plugin

>> No.18562510

>>18561605
It used to be so easy before the quarantine shit started. I personally have 1000+ scans from archive.org on my hard drive. I used to throw the scanned pages in a tool called scan tailor, then compile the output and do an ocr with adobe acrobat. Nowadays it’s difficult to do that after most of the major publishers removed their books from archive’s lending system. They even changed something with the coding. A friend of mine was working on a JavaScript thingy so we can keep on pirating what we can, but we both got busy with life.

>> No.18563032

>>18562510
What you got?

>> No.18563048
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>>18561932
thanks fren!

>> No.18563135

what about scribd?

>> No.18563581

>>18561932
Doesn't work

>> No.18563598

>>18561732
Just deDRM it. It's simple. Boomers will think their product is bulletproof. I'm very happy now.

>> No.18563605

>>18563032
Not the same guy, but I use epubor. I think my program is better. It costs money, an unreasonable amount, but I just torrented it.

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>>18561463
>borrow e-books
What the actual fuck, how does one even achieve this?
I never liked e-books, I much rather prefer physical copies, but yeesh that is some serious ass backwards shit borrowing a fucking e-book?

>> No.18563639

>>18563629
jews

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>>18563639
Every time.
God I hate the Jews so much

>> No.18563859

>>18561478
its trivially easy to remove with calibre but i think that you still need to install a*obe's software

>> No.18564228

is it possible to download and remove whatever drm this would have?
can't find this anywhere
https://archive.org/details/westernneoaramai00rusk