Books you would love to buy but can't....

[darryl]

@DNSB. I wonder how many of these sites would actually let you download an ebook. Probably not many, as most such sties are scams. This is not of course to say that pirate ebooks are not readily available. As for site blocking? It is flavour of the month at the moment but is basically next to useless.

[steven168]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I just tried an experiment using the Tor network and switching until I appeared to be coming from the UK. Out of a list of 25 sites that showed pirated ebooks, 19 of them were accessible and 1 was down. So 80% are available until someone complains about them and the ISPs block access.

i thought Tor network are not good and many are blocking it.

[sjfan]

Originally Posted by steven168

i thought Tor network are not good and many are blocking it.

Please don't equate Tor with piracy or say that it is not good.

Tor is designed to protect anonymous free speech, which is one of the lynchpins of democracy (see: Publius and the Federalist Papers). Its core algorithm was developed by the US Naval Research Lab, and it was largely funded by Human Rights Watch and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect political dissidents in oppressed nations. It is used by the New York Times, the Guardian, and other journalism outlets to protect whistleblowers and dissidents, and it is endorsed by the Internet Watch Foundation.

It can be used for illicit reasons as well, but that is not its reason for existing at all.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by sjfan

Please don't equate Tor with piracy or say that it is not good.

Tor is designed to protect anonymous free speech, which is one of the lynchpins of democracy (see: Publius and the Federalist Papers). Its core algorithm was developed by the US Naval Research Lab, and it was largely funded by Human Rights Watch and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect political dissidents in oppressed nations. It is used by the New York Times, the Guardian, and other journalism outlets to protect whistleblowers and dissidents, and it is endorsed by the Internet Watch Foundation.

It can be used for illicit reasons as well, but that is not its reason for existing at all.

Amen. I don't use Tor, but I'm glad it exists.

[Marinolino]

Originally Posted by BookCat

I would love to buy the ebook of Famine by Liam O'Flaherty. I read this as a library book (physical) many years ago and it stayed in my mind. I would love to read it again, but don't want to purchase a pbook which it's a strain for me to read (I'm both short and long sighted), but it isn't available as an ebook. Botherations!

You can than buy paper book, scan e.g. 50-60 pages for a day or two reading session (using any tablet with a good camera or a scanner) and transform those to epub, repeating it till the end of the book.

Of course you should zip/rar those files with a strong password so that no one can gain access to the book but you and delete it after you finish the book if it is against the law in your country to keep it for a longer period.

[BookCat]

If I scanned it wouldn't the computer see it as an image? Can Calibre turn that into mobi?

[Marinolino]

Originally Posted by BookCat

If I scanned it wouldn't the computer see it as an image? Can Calibre turn that into mobi?

You can simply use those images or quickly print out those images as PDF or as epub/mobi images using Calibre and then read it in landscape mode with a considerable text magnification depending on the screen size, but if you prefer epub or mobi as txt files you should apply OCR (optical character recognitionon) on those images beforehand, using any free or payed for OCR software like Abby Finereader, Adobe Acrobat etc. or free online services that would usually directly create epub files.

Since many eink readers are capable of reflowing ocr-ed pdf (using its OCR-layer text that we can enlarge or change its font type as with epub/mobi) there is maybe no need for epub conversion, if pdf reflow mode is good enough for our purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...ition_software

http://www.finescanner.com/en/
https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id534203582?mt=8

free-trial
https://pdf.wondershare.com/how-to/c...f-to-epub.html
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/appl...#platform/ipad

https://www.onlineocr.net
https://ocr.space
http://www.free-online-ocr.com
etc.

There are free apps for tablets too:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pages/id361309726?mt=8

https://mashtips.com/android-ocr-scanner-apps/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...nard.ocr&hl=en

Although these informations are not strictly related to drm-stripping methods, I wouldn't go into any further details here because it could be maybe interpreted as such.

[darryl]

Or, if you're going to do it a lot, buy a Czur Scanner.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by darryl

@DNSB. I wonder how many of these sites would actually let you download an ebook. Probably not many, as most such sties are scams. This is not of course to say that pirate ebooks are not readily available. As for site blocking? It is flavour of the month at the moment but is basically next to useless.

The sites I picked were ones that were known to allow actually downloading the books. The joys of searching the Internet where I found a site listing sites that were "legit" (well, as legitimate as a pirate site gets ) and sites that were scams and should be avoided. I used a junk email to register for some of the sites that required registration.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by steven168

i thought Tor network are not good and many are blocking it.

Looking at the replies, all I can say is that Tor can be used illicitly but it has far more uses including being about the best way to use the Internet anonymously when your local government is not big on freedom of speech.