Anybody know how to download books from Internet Archive without having to return them?
I was able to download some textbooks a while back but they never stayed permanent and I guess had some sort of DRM that made them expire after 14 days.
anybody have any way to get around that and download books from the Internet archive to keep permanently without issue?
I would just use one of the other download sites listed in the megathread but none of them have the book that I'm looking for. TIA
Import the downloaded file into ADE. ADE makes a DRM protected version of the downloaded file and stores it on your computer.
Install Calibre and DeDRM plugin for calibre
Find the file created by ADE and import it to Calibre. Calibre removes the DRM protection from the file and creates another version of the book that is not bound by a time limit and can be easily shared/stored/uploaded.
You can then read the book without the hindrances of borrowing. Hope this helps! Let me know if you need help, and if this is too much to take in, just send me a DM and I'll remove the DRM for you.
Legally the internet archive isn't allowed to let you keep books forever and I don't think there's an easy way to keep them. Whatever books you're reading can be obtained through other means though, it doesn't need to be from Internet Archive.
The hourly ones can be scraped from IA if you flip through all the pages in the online interface and use a cache viewer for your web browser. Then you have to stitch all the images together into a pdf.