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Originally Posted by latepaul
Scanning and OCR or simply have someone type it up.
Cory Doctorow made the point that if you look at the piracy that existed before ebooks were mainstream, and look at the amount of work it took (IIRC he estimated ~8hours per book) and the fact that people were still willing to do it, well that should tell you something about how futile DRM is.
For myself, I wouldn't be willing to do that much work so I'd probably either live with the restrictions or not buy. Or possibly buy and then also download a pirate copy (I'm morally OK with that even if it's technically illegal).
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If the reflowing capability is the reason for OCR-ing the ebook, then we can skip it nowadays, because we can take screenshots at any zoom level we want or need (using any hi-res tablet) for about 2-3 seconds per page, so, 15-20 minutes for a 400-500 page ebook.