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Old 01-25-2008, 11:35 PM   #29
snookums
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I just wanted to point out that the Kindle comes with a screenshot function built-in. You could flip and click through all of the pages unless there is some kind of limit on the number of screenshots per book. From there, Optical Character Recognition is just a few clicks away. Anyone who has actually tried to convert one of their paper books to txt using OCR can tell you that the big hassle is getting the text straight. OCR software usually blows it when the text isn't strictly horizontal. Even a little slant lowers recognition. That issue would be completely moot if you used the Kindle's screenshots.

note: I'm not advocating that anyone rip Kindle books and post them on the darknet. I'm just pointing out that the Kindle's drm is trivially bypassed.
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