Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
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It is now much simpler and easier to get a backup.ab file from your Android device
and import that into the tools.
first thanks to all of you guys for this great site & tools, keep going
conclusion:
the idea and work behind this patch is brilliant… but I have the bad feeling that
most of this/my rather crazy work above to do myself the whole patching thing was
more for glory, like climbing some kind of Everest without any training, than
anything else…
must precise that I have only an old mac-ppc + this Android phone; ppc has no
kindle.app available*; ppc has no java 1.6 so no possible apktool etc. (nor eclipse
Android plugin etc.) (possible with very old versions ?), luckily I had an old
version of VPC(virtualpc)/XP (extremely slow!), so I could try all this java stuff
at least in a normal XP window/virtual machine, on my mac-ppc; i didn’t try any XP-
Android link through USB or else, had only my usual Mac-Android wifi ftp (great
direct drag’n drop with cyberduck).
But when i see all these/my efforts described above for a non-specialist (like 1
week work vs. 1-2 hours for you apk developers !), I wonder if this patched apk
shouldn’t/couldn’t be made directly available for most other average joes, no ?
just like deDRM ? (or maybe i don’t see the problems here ?);
besides, i didn’t check, but i have the strong feeling that in using kindle
directly on XP to buy my books, this great app deDRM would have found directly
these PIDs or other keys automatically (as it does for me on my mac-ppc for some
ebook purchased and downloaded directly from other vendors; i.e. “stupid me”… on
XP, the deDRM app would have worked in 1 sec… vs. 1 week work above for patching
Android, + the crazy procedure just to get these pids, screenshot + ocr + etc. !
well, it should be much faster now, of course !).
*reminder: there is a solution for a mac-ppc only guy who want to buy & read Kindle
books for very cheap, and accept to read them online in a browser : little
advertised “Kindle cloud reader” which used to work even with rather old Safari
versions (didn’t check recently if it still works)… (looks a lot like the ‘Google
play’ book reader) texts are very little protected/not encrypted there apparently
(journalists even said at launch 2-3 years ago that Amazon was abandoning DRMs,
just like Apple did with music a while ago) : texts can more or less easily be
copied piece by piece/ by page with a few astute clicks (same for Google; but
formatting is gone; and who want to recopy a 300 p. book page by page !); tried to
reverse engineer a bit for fun this browser reader to see where and how the text
was stored, etc. but (as mentioned I think by another in another comment) the text
is downloaded only by pieces, not all at once (don’t remember what if browser
turned “offline” ?), and stored here and there, in caches… maybe there are tools
for capturing auto these books sent to browsers ? didn’t check ? (not for my mac-
ppc at the time in any case; but possibly Windows).