I used to be able to download the available pages from books on Google Books with pysheng(3) and/or getxbook, but neither of them seem to work any more. On Firefox I can go into “More Information>Media Info” and download page images one by one, but this is slow and cumbersome. Any recommendations for a replacement?
Oceanofpdf.com has a lot of free books in epub and pdf format.
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Sorry, wrong link. Should work now
Yeah, same here, unfortunately.
Sorry, wrong link. Should work now
If you’re up on your bash coding skills: in the Firefox debugger, you can find the URL to the page images and see if there’s a usable pattern in the URLs. If there is, you could script it in bash and repeatedly call
curlto download the images.I’m afraid that’s beyond my current skill set, but thank you anyway! 🙂
For books I’ve bought, I download them into Adobe Digital Editions and then use ePubor Ultimate to remove the DRM. That gives me an unencrypted .epub file.
Others claim to have been able to de-DRM their ebooks with calibre, but I never got that working. Maybe it used to work with older DRM versions or something.
Last one I bought (it’s been a year and a half or so) I was able to use Calibre to decrypt it. I do believe the store page has to have a flag saying it’s a digital editions download. I don’t think all offer that IIRC
