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pixelmelt
1y ago
Glad to see iteration on top of it! I did swap the repo to GPL3 before privating it due to legal concerns, if you think it's in the clear, feel free to share. My only ask is you wipe the git history since I accidentally included the ou
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1y ago
Interesting, hadent seen this before, thanks!
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pixelmelt
1y ago
Using it against consumers should be anyway, but it sure is fun to make and break it, its the ultimate brain teaser!
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pixelmelt
1y ago
That's amazing! Well done, it was a fun challenge
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1y ago
Fixed!
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1y ago
I haven't gotten images working yet, they have some weird obfuscation applied to them as well
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1y ago
Its released! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45610226
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1y ago
OCR would likely work, however I would need to render everything out with a browser and do (probably) more processing. I also wanted a way to preserve text styling exactly as the web viewer shows it, not sure if OCR supports detecting text
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How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
(blog.pixelmelt.dev)
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1y ago
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1y ago
I've been working on exactly this! After buying a book and having an awful exerience in their native reader I realized they no longer let you download your ebooks. Thus began the war on their web reader, they have some interesting defe