Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android

shkspr.mobi Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android

I recently purchased a book for my MSC which was only available via a crappy Android app. There was no obvious way to decrypt it to read on a more sensible device, so I resorted to the ancient art of screenscraping. This is a quick-and-dirty way to grab images of the pages and convert them to a stan...

Some of you might have followed my earlier posts about the LCP ePub DRM. Here's another one of Terence's blog posts that I thought was great.

DRM @lemmy.dbzer0.com

Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android

shkspr.mobi /blog/2021/12/quick-and-dirty-way-to-rip-an-ebook-from-android/

13 0

Ereader @lemmy.world

Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android

shkspr.mobi /blog/2021/12/quick-and-dirty-way-to-rip-an-ebook-from-android/

7 0

4 comments

Learned about two cool tools through this article and the comments posted there:
https://www.autohotkey.com/ for automating tasks on OS level
https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy for Android screen sharing/ recording and control
Using these together would be a very powerful toolkit for such purposes.
- They're both awesome tools in general! I've got a custom ahk script in my autostart folder with tons of functionality like timed shutdowns, pinning windows on top, setting window transparency, filling in my email address when I type "@@" and some other stuff. You can check it out here.
  And scrcpy is a great alternative to bringing a laptop if you have access to a PC but want to use your own device. At work, visiting family and so on. I posted my results mirroring a virtual second screen that I set up in the dev options here.
  
  Cool! Another rabbit hole to explore. Thanks for posting.

Great, then how do I properly turn the PDF into an epub, I tried many things but I never get anything good.