Anybody know how to download books from Internet Archive without having to return them? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by HectorBarbossa99@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml

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I was able to download some textbooks a while back but they never stayed permanent and I guess had some sort of DRM that made them expire after 14 days.

anybody have any way to get around that and download books from the Internet archive to keep permanently without issue?

I would just use one of the other download sites listed in the megathread but none of them have the book that I'm looking for. TIA

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[-] nintendiator@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Internet Archive archives now have DRM

Like, what's even the point of having them, then? Not much of an "Archive", are they? Didn't expect IA of all places to get enshittified.

[-] HectorBarbossa99@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

yeah it's really sad. Had to just deal with checking out my textbook on an hourly basis last semester, but that wasn't very reliable

[-] None_S@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

The hourly ones can be scraped from IA if you flip through all the pages in the online interface and use a cache viewer for your web browser. Then you have to stitch all the images together into a pdf.

[-] HectorBarbossa99@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I may have to look into this. What do I have to do specifically to bring up the cache viewer for the browser?

I did something similar it sounds like to rip movies off of soap2day.to

[-] None_S@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You need a piece of software to do it. I know of one for chrome and for Firefox, so depends on your browser. Saw how to do it on a reddit post a year ago or so. Its always a pain to find again.

EDIT: here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/fm1xpw/internet_archive_borrowing_picture_books/