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How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked

a year ago by vividspecter to c/technology

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As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
anamethatisnt 87 points a year ago

That was an interesting read.

If you wanna own your audiobooks you might wanna check out https://libro.fm/ - they allow you to download the bought audiobook without drm.
I gladly accept tips for similar sites when it comes to buying ebooks.

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felsiq 32 points a year ago

Kobo does drm-free ebooks when the publisher allows it, so it’s on a case-by-case basis but I have got a lot of them drm free

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Ghoelian 34 points a year ago

Not the most ethical, but kobo is also very easily de-drm'd with calibre.

Actually no this is not even unethical, I did actually pay for those books.

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anamethatisnt 8 points a year ago

22 out of 22 books i checked at Kobo had Adobe DRM. :(

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radieschen 18 points a year ago

In case you already got some books from Audible, there's Libation.

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anamethatisnt 2 points a year ago

I've never used it, but bookmarked the github. Cheers. :)

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hummingbird 43 points a year ago

I bought my first ebook from amazon

Just don't do that. If you give money to this company, they'll continue to go down the path they're on. Enshitification.

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plm00 8 points a year ago

That's doable until you need a book that's an Amazon exclusive.

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HejMedDig 21 points a year ago

Torrent, PayPal author

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waldo_was_here 14 points a year ago

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The_v 3 points a year ago

I have "purchased" thousands of books from Amazon, but never given them money for a book.

They run free specials all the time. FreeReadFeed scans for them. It's a great way to discover authors to purchase their books at another site or use the library apps.

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Boozilla 39 points a year ago

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Boozilla 21 points a year ago

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Nima 18 points a year ago

that was such a great read no joke. I love it when people use spite as a motivator.

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jherazob 15 points a year ago

Spite: The greatest motivator!

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Cocodapuf 2 points a year ago

That was a good read. I did think it was interesting that he decided to solve the randomized alphabet problem with the complex character recognition and image matching system he used. I mean, that was very clever and it clearly worked, so great! But an alternate option would have been the cryptographic method. There's a lot of software designed to crack replacement cyphers (especially in English) it probably would have been trivial to drop those characters into one of these and have it spit out the results.

Admittedly it would likely struggle with the other three alphabets, the italic, heading and italic heading alphabets, where there may not be enough words to be certain about success.

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