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[nerdflighter]

Does anyone know how to rip books from archive.org? I'm a desperately slow reader, and I'd like to read Sex Matters and Call Me By Your Name on my own time and at my own pace. The two week borrow limit is stressful and it makes me a slower reader still.

Also, last time I 'borrowed' sex matters, it wouldn't let me copy out tracts of the text?? Which was so weird tbh I'm not sure how that even works with a screenreader............anyway. If you have a copy of either of those that I can convert to epub and read on my phone, hmu

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[sciatrix]

You can, as hellofriendsiminthedark pointed out, download the PDF versions and strip the DRM from them. The easiest (and free) way to do this is via Apprentice Alf's calibre plugin.

Do bear in mind that these types of services often pay their authors, though, so that it is good if you're doing this with library books to periodically "check out" the books when you're reading them, so they show up in the subscription stats.

If you like listening to books, also, AIReader is a pretty good Android app for reading books organized in Calibre Companion on a phone, and it has a really nice text-to-speech function. If you combine it with one of the nicer Google voices, it can make a decent audiobook as long as you don't mind weird pronunciations on fantasy words now and again. (I mention this because an excellent student of mine who was also a very slow reader expressed a desire to be able to listen to text more once, and it occurred to me that not everyone knows how to do that.)