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

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[–] drifty@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Dusty@l.dustybeer.com 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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The original is no longer maintained and this is the recommended for in that repo.

[–] drifty@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you for letting me know! I'll edit my og comment.

[–] Dusty@l.dustybeer.com 1 points 2 years ago

No worries, I just found out recently myself.

[–] HectorBarbossa99@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

thanks so much, I really appreciate the help!

[–] simple@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HectorBarbossa99@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

thanks! I checked all the CSE's and various book websites and none of them have the book that I need. Thanks anyways though!

[–] roofuskit@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools

And https://calibre-ebook.com/

[–] HectorBarbossa99@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

awesome, thanks!

[–] wahming@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://annas-archive.org/

[–] Joshua_ABBACAB_1312@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Scrolled too far down before seeing this. Was about to mention it myself. Also first comment on Lemmy!

[–] nintendiator@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HectorBarbossa99@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] None_S@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HectorBarbossa99@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] None_S@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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/

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