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No, not like a photocopier/scanner. A song with DRM can be played and rerecorded in real time. So ~4 minutes a song. This can also happen without human interve

No, not like a photocopier/scanner. A song with DRM can be played and rerecorded in real time. So ~4 minutes a song. This can also happen without human intervention. A book can be scanned in hours at best, with a human involved the whole time. (I am sure there is specialty hardware that can do this, but that isn't quite the same a a commodity PC)

0x44 17y ago
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-from-Trash-and-Cheap-C/ http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-... According to the author of the above instructable, it takes about 20 minutes to scan a book.
- ramchip 17y ago
  Still requires a lot more hardware and work than for music, but I must admit I've been surprised by the (obviously hand-scanned) books you can find sometimes on the net. Sometimes people are willing to go the extra mile...
  - 0x44 17y ago
    In 1998, a CD-ROM drive cost around $100, and ripping a CD took around twenty minutes. That was CD-ripping's nascency. We're only dipping our toes in the book-digitizing nascency, and it takes around twenty minutes to rip a book and $300 for the platen and a couple digital cameras.
natrius 17y ago
The Kindle app can run in the emulator, right? Write a script to take screenshots and page through the book. Bonus points for OCR. Is there a reason this wouldn't work?
- mikedouglas 17y ago
  The Kindle app can run in the emulator, right? Nope. The iphone simulator doesn't emulate the ARM architecture, so even if you cracked the app store drm, you'd need to run it on an actual device. For something to run in the simulator, it would need to be compiled to i386.
  - rbanffy 17y ago
    It shouldn't be that hard to make a QEMU-based iPhone (or Kindle) emulator. Obviously, Amazon and Apple would unleash their hordes of lawyers upon the poor person who ventured in such an ill advised adventure. Sounds like a fun ill advised adventure to take part in.
DannoHung 17y ago
Scanned PDFs are a pretty big analog loophole, even if they've not been OCR'd.

0x44 17y ago

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-from-Trash-and-Cheap-C/ http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-... According to the author of the above instructable, it takes about 20 minutes to scan a book.

ramchip 17y ago
Still requires a lot more hardware and work than for music, but I must admit I've been surprised by the (obviously hand-scanned) books you can find sometimes on the net. Sometimes people are willing to go the extra mile...
- 0x44 17y ago
  In 1998, a CD-ROM drive cost around $100, and ripping a CD took around twenty minutes. That was CD-ripping's nascency. We're only dipping our toes in the book-digitizing nascency, and it takes around twenty minutes to rip a book and $300 for the platen and a couple digital cameras.

natrius 17y ago

The Kindle app can run in the emulator, right? Write a script to take screenshots and page through the book. Bonus points for OCR. Is there a reason this wouldn't work?

mikedouglas 17y ago
The Kindle app can run in the emulator, right? Nope. The iphone simulator doesn't emulate the ARM architecture, so even if you cracked the app store drm, you'd need to run it on an actual device. For something to run in the simulator, it would need to be compiled to i386.
- rbanffy 17y ago
  It shouldn't be that hard to make a QEMU-based iPhone (or Kindle) emulator. Obviously, Amazon and Apple would unleash their hordes of lawyers upon the poor person who ventured in such an ill advised adventure. Sounds like a fun ill advised adventure to take part in.

DannoHung 17y ago

Scanned PDFs are a pretty big analog loophole, even if they've not been OCR'd.