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 standard PDF using Linux. There's a lot more you can do to make the end book more useful, but this'll get you started Lots of Screen Shots With a USB cable plugged into my phone and laptop, I wrote a…

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.

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

  • visnudeva@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

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