Glen Your link says the book will only be available in Oct 2025
On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM glen <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, if you're a fan of Doctorow: > > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/enshittification-the-drm-free-audiobook > > There's the same problem with Ebooks. I figured I'd try buying one because > it hasn't made it to Z-Library, yet. Normally I buy the paper version and > get the PDF or Epub from libgen or wherever. So this one's from Routledge, > which has it's own damned format VBK. And AFAICT, I can't use DeDRM or > whatever with Calibre to convert it. So I manually cut-n-pasted it all into > markdown, then used Calibre to create an Epub. Works OK in my epub reader > on the phone as well. I didn't convert all the hyper links and I didn't > take the time to add page numbers. But it works. Sheesh. It's a lot of work > just to "have" my copy. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to deDRM a book. But > the Routledge one allowed me to cut&paste. So that's probably not illegal. > I'm not technically violating the DMCA. > > Alternatively, I coulda just bought the hardback and xeroxed it. > Tesseract-OCR works pretty well these days. But Renee's already upset about > the number of books I have. [grrrr] > > I'd be grateful for anyone who has a good workflow for this sort of thing. > > -- > ¡sıɹƎ ןıɐH ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ > ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα > σώσω. > >
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