Purpose:- Read a copyrighted EPUB/KEPUB/AZW3 un-DRM'd ebook file and create a copy with scrambled text contents.
- The aim is to create a book sufficiently mangled to allow a full upload to MobileRead without breach of copyright.
- This should make it easier for MR members to request and offer help with problematic ebooks.
N.B:
The upgrade to calibre 4.0 required some technical changes to ScrambleEbook. As a result it is no longer available as a standalone python script and so the old attachment to this post has been removed.
Instead, a commandline option has been added to the
ScrambleEbook calibre plugin. Those who wish to scramble a book which is present on their OS disk but not in any of their calibre libraries can do the following:
- Open calibre and install the ScrambleEbook plugin exactly like you would for any other calibre plugin. This is a one-off task and you do not need to have calibre open to do the rest.
- From the commandline of your OS (this example assumes Windows) use the following one-liner:
Code:
"c:\program files\calibre2\calibre-debug" --run-plugin ScrambleEbook path\to\your\book
- Alternatively, users who prefer to use a Windows .bat file can create one containing these 3 lines:
Code:
echo off
"c:\program files\calibre2\calibre-debug" --run-plugin ScrambleEbook %1
PAUSE
Then drag-drop the book to be scrambled onto it.
In both cases the
red bit is the absolute path to wherever you have installed calibre on your machine.