As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
  • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    85·
    3 months ago

    That was an interesting read.

    If you wanna own your audiobooks you might wanna check out https://libro.fm/ - they allow you to download the bought audiobook without drm.
    I gladly accept tips for similar sites when it comes to buying ebooks.

  • hummingbird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    453·
    3 months ago

    I bought my first ebook from amazon

    Just don’t do that. If you give money to this company, they’ll continue to go down the path they’re on. Enshitification.

    • plm00@lemmy.mlEnglish
      101·
      3 months ago

      That’s doable until you need a book that’s an Amazon exclusive.

    • The_v@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I have “purchased” thousands of books from Amazon, but never given them money for a book.

      They run free specials all the time. FreeReadFeed scans for them. It’s a great way to discover authors to purchase their books at another site or use the library apps.

  • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    that was such a great read no joke. I love it when people use spite as a motivator.

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    That was a good read. I did think it was interesting that he decided to solve the randomized alphabet problem with the complex character recognition and image matching system he used. I mean, that was very clever and it clearly worked, so great! But an alternate option would have been the cryptographic method. There’s a lot of software designed to crack replacement cyphers (especially in English) it probably would have been trivial to drop those characters into one of these and have it spit out the results.

    Admittedly it would likely struggle with the other three alphabets, the italic, heading and italic heading alphabets, where there may not be enough words to be certain about success.