found this great bookmarklet for downloading DRM’d books from the internet archive in high quality. did not work in edge, but worked great in chrome!
That’s interesting. I’d be a little concerned that widespread use of that might create more legal issues for Archive.org that wouldn’t be problems if it never caught on much. On that basis, I’d probably not use it.
But I’d imagine ideological opposition to such a thing wouldn’t be enough to keep it from catching on either.
pdf drm is already really easy to defeat (there’s online file converters that can do it in seconds), i agree on the rest tho i probably wouldn’t use it personally, libgen is great for anything academic and then for the rest, slsk has a surprising amount of books floating around
I like the project but I dislike the author calling it a autistic project.
Not every project striving to solve a simple problem is autism. Everyone has projects and normal people also get caught in the flow to solve a problem they are having.
It is important to note that before the event of tiktok and before everyone and their peers sef-diagnosed as autistic, the term was already used semi-ironically for comedic effect on less sensible internet forums when describing any nerdy behavior, as it is in this context.
You may still deplore the use of a
diseaseslight divergence from the societally accepted set of behaviors as a comically charged descriptor, but make sure you don’t interpret is as a serious commentary on the nature of the project, for that would be in error.I just feel it is inappropriate, similar to calling something retarded. To each their own.
