DMT's magically awesome 2010 guide to...
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- How to convert VitalSource BookShelf E-books (.vbk) to PDF
- How to remove DRM from VitalSource Bookshelf E-books
- How to Remove DRM from .vbk files
- How to be realise that DMT loves you
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²²²²² Company: VitalSource ²²²²²
ÛÛÛÛÛ Product: BookShelf E-books ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ Protection: Evil proprietary DRM ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ Platform: Windows + Mac ÛÛÛÛÛ
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ÛÛÛÛÛßß ßßÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ We are coming for this world.. ÛÛÛÛÛ
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ÛÛÛÛÛ Do More Tribe is proud to announce the release of a new ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ DRM-removal technique. VitalSource BookShelf sells DRM'd Ebooks ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ in a proprietary format. ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ We find this unacceptable. ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ If you pay for an ebook, it is yours to view on any device you ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ own. Do not let anyone ever tell you otherwise. It's very ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ surprising that nobody on the interwebs seems to have figured out ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ how to bypass the restriction. It's quite a fun little trick. ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ The VitalSource Bookshelf software allows you to print your ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ Ebook, but only 5 pages at a time. On the surface this would ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ seem to foil the print-to-PDF method, however using some ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ AppleScript magic we can have their own software do all the work ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ for us ;) ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ You will need a computer running MacOS in order to do this, ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ however the resulting PDF will work on any computer. There are ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ VMWare images of MacOS available online if you don't have a Mac. ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ The AppleScript code below will dump the entire ebook out into ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ a bunch of pdfs, each containing 5 pages each. We can then ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ easily merge them together to create one DRM-free PDF containing ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ all the pages. ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ 1. Open your ebook up in the VitalSource app. ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ 2. Load up AppleScript and paste in the following code: ÛÛÛÛÛ
set totalPages to 340
set startPage to 0
set authorName to "DMT"
tell application "VitalSource Bookshelf"
activate
repeat with theIncrementValue from startPage to totalPages - 1 by 5
if (theIncrementValue = 0) then
set thisValue to "a"
else
set thisValue to theIncrementValue
end if
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "p" using command down
tell application "System Events" to keystroke thisValue as string
tell application "System Events" to keystroke tab
tell application "System Events" to keystroke theIncrementValue + 5 as string
tell application "System Events" to keystroke tab
tell application "System Events" to keystroke return
tell application "System Events" to keystroke return
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "p" using command down
tell application "System Events" to keystroke theIncrementValue as string
tell application "System Events" to keystroke tab
tell application "System Events" to keystroke tab
tell application "System Events" to keystroke authorName
tell application "System Events" to keystroke return
delay 7
end repeat
end tell
ÛÛÛÛÛ Did you notice how we even took away the sides of our sexy ASCII ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ art just so you would have hassle-free copy+paste? That is how ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ much DMT loves you <3 ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ I'm not even joking. We really do love you. ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ 3. Change the totalPages to the number of pages, and authorName ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ to whatever you want that field set to in the pdf. ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ 4. The delay of 7 seconds is quite conservative, this should do ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ nicely for most people. If your computer is really fast then ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ you can probably lower it a bit, but if the saving of any one ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ pdf takes more than the delay then the script will break and ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ you'll have to manually stop it. If this happens just set the ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ startPage to the Next page you don't have. Pages are saved ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ starting from 0 (page 0 is called "a" in the app, fuck knows why) ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ and up in increments of 5, so you'll end up with 0.pdf, 5.pdf, ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ 10.pdf, etc etc. So if it breaks and you have to re-start it, ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ the number you start it from will always be either 0 or a ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ multiple of 5. ÛÛÛÛÛ
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ÛÛÛÛÛ 5. So now you have your pdfs, time to join them together. If ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ you want to do this on MacOS, install the textlive-context ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ port with: ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ # port install texlive-context ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ If you want to merge them on a ubuntu or debian linux box, then ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ you want to do: ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ # apt-get install context ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ Make sure all the pdfs are in one directory, then cd into that ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ directory and type: ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ # texexec --pdfarrange --result all.pdf `ls -1 *.pdf |sort -n` ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ
ÛÛÛÛÛ You now have your fully DRM-free PDF :) ÛÛÛÛÛ
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ÛÛÛÛÛ -DMT 2010, be love ÛÛÛÛÛ
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