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So Amazon finally closed up the kindle 4 pc loophole (bah) and that means I need to learn how to find ebooks for the authors who insist on releasing exclusively on kindle.

Looks like ebook-hunter and the like are the way to go for that (and I set up a reminder to try to get an invite to myanonamouse and we'll see how that goes). But... that site uses tiny-files which is straight up cancer. Not the end of the world to click the same link and close the same blocked pop ups five times in a row for a one off but... yeah.

Back in the day we used apps like jdownloader to make this less painful but from checking out the flatpak... that might be actively malware at this point AND it wants me to install definitely malware browser plugins and the like.

So is there a better alternative? Preferably something I can run in a container on a random server.

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Libgen has always worked well for me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

definitely malware browser plugins

It's only one, and browser extensions are trivially easy to "decompile" since they're not distributed compiled in the first place. The extensions are just zips or rars of the source code and metadata.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Myanonamouse? With BitTorrent and gluten through a vpn, could be done with docker in a low end VPs relatively easily

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

Direct download is essentially dead in the US because of the relatively recent changes to file sharing laws.. XDCC, Torrenting, Usenet, P2P. Choose one. HTTP warez has long gone the way of the Dodo since Warez-BB died.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

JDownloader from the official site is not malware.

https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=54725

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Yep, you can pay with monero for faster direct downloads