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Originally Posted by Quoth
It's been done with a real eink kindle and a Lego Robot.
But pirates use ARCs etc.
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I ran across an article from UK, some guy took a eink Kindle with public domain book to his local library and used their photocopy machine to copy it page by page from the Kindle. Then bound it into a real paper book. So yea guess people have all kinds priorities. Only time I knew anybody to photocopy a whole paper book was when it was out of print he wanted a copy real bad. Otherwise usually just copy certain pages for research paper or something. Or back in college copy the textbook assigned exercises at end chapter using shared expensive textbooks.
Its unlikely I am going to make many backup copies, since most my reading is read it and toss it fiction. But I was truly surprised how well my workaround to copy a Kindle book worked. All automated by script and not much of a script, just had it advance page in the Kindle book every three seconds and the automatic screenshotter takes shot when significant number screen pixels change. Sends them to designated directory. All labeled in order. At end of book it just waits cause screen doesnt change and it doesnt take a shot if screensaver pops up. Oh did have to manually take a shot of the cover since the book isnt going to advance to the cover page. Still stupid easy. It could probably advance faster but since I let it do things unattended, one second, three seconds, really doesnt matter. I did leave the screenshot app making camera click sound to let me know it was working, but that can be silenced. Also really doesnt matter what format the books are in, since its just screen shot of page showing in the app, its not trying to descramble some exotic piecemeal DRM code file. Do suggest setting Kindle app to large font since you have very limited control however you view the copy. Using nomacks and the png files or your favorite pdf reader (firefox has one built in now) once converted to pdf. If you further convert to epub, then suggest setting your epub viewer to continuous scroll setting, least that was my preference.