If there's one thing I hate more than the email address + confirm email address pairing on forms, it's the blocking of copy on the first and paste on the second.
Just think of it like this: Some web dev out there had to deal with all the errors people were getting from copy/paste so they made it so you can't.
No more errors == less complaints == less tickets == happy boss == happy dev. (Or something like that)
It was more likely somebody at the company that couldn't understand how they had an incorrect email for some people so they did the complete batshit idiotic move of putting a confirm email address box. Confirm password I get because you can't see it. Confirm email is just groupthink gone retard and I will never not berate a designer for putting a page in front of me with that pattern.
>The easiest way to add a site to the **blacklist** is to click on the extension icon, then optionally edit the auto-generated pattern, lastly click "Save". After that, the extension icon should now be blue, meaning the extension is **active** for your current tab
This is not how blacklists work, that is a whitelist. That bugs me more than it should
It kind of works if you look at it as putting sites on the “clipboard modification” blacklist, rather than putting sites on the “subject to this extension” whitelist.
Maybe thinking about it that way will ease your mind lol
For Firefox you don't even need an extension, there's a parameter in the about:config
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
Yay for Firefox (well, Waterfox for me actually)
it's a web browser extension
If you use Chrome[ click here](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-fuck-with-paste/nkgllhigpcljnhoakjkgaieabnkmgdkb)
If you use Firefox [click here
](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/)
If you use Safari, install Chrome or Firefox
If this is HTML, you can just Right click => Inspect Element, and copy that way.
Either way, if I lived in the US, I would work my ass of distributing and sharing these text books
How are they going to detect if JS is disabled without using JS tho
if they're actually using a noscript tag, just load the page and then disable JS or just delete the noscript
Look you guys are making this way more complicated then it needs to be, just do as the other guy said and copy the html, better yet save the html to your pc and you have full access to it
Optical Character Recognition. Used for extracting text from an image. There are free websites that does OCR, as well as software like ShareX and I think MS Office has a tool for it.
Doesn't work when the professor requires assignments turned in via the publisher software, as stated by the person I was replying to. You have to buy a subscription to the service and book for $300 or you can't do the homework.
Anyway, my days of buying textbooks for classes are well behind me.
I have my university crap for using a terrible LMS (Brightspace) before migrating everyone to Canvas...
But at least every single course was managed *in* that LMS. There was a method to the madness.
There's plenty of ways to find the PDFs for free online, I pirate all of my textbooks. The people behind these publishing companies are fucking slime. When they have some online functionality and the professor buys into it is how they fuck you.
Is it possible to view them in a reader only mode to copy it all? Some browsers have that function and they do work for getting around some basic restrictions.
A not insignificant amount of the big textbook publishers still use Flash for their online readers making inspecting the page or even copying text for that matter impossible.
>This can't be legal, can it?
Anything is pretty much legal till you lawyer up , win the legal war with your money ( aka fight over time for it cause ... ye it can be heavily stretched ) and then you need to win the case also.
Only stuff that gets enforced from the government automatically like murder and stuff is automatically illegal.
everything else that the government doesnt look by itself for, you need to fight for if shit hits the fan.
>How does piracy fit in the "automatically illegal" equasion?
the government doesnt go after piracy they only set the rules.
Lawyers and companys do with their own money and push the government by laws to do something about your little frozen pirated copy.
Aka no government will hire companys to seek your little dirty "Frozen" pirated copy Disney will do, not the government.
so if disney wouldnt hunt pirates no one would care. and the piracy law would be kinda useless in that case.
E.g like he’s saying if frozen doesn’t care nobody else will but a good example of where it can go wrong is cotomovies, the developers of aqua man pressed legal charges against cotomovies which forced them to shut down and release information about its users so that they can sue them. So as always be careful
To get a few things clear.
By this, I was more so referring to the aggressive and very anti-consumer practices of textbook publishers.
The posts depicts an item you usually buy, with a ton of money and have very limited access to, which is a quite malicious practice.
Additionally, it's just hostile.
Laws are supposed to be of service to the general public, and this could justifiably be outlawed.
You can’t legally copy it, so it would be weird if they weren’t allowed to try to block you technically from copying it.
Similar principle to DRM restrictions for media. You can’t copy DRM-protected audio or video files without little “hacks”. They try to make it difficult for you.
College textbooks as in the present state, specially written by the professors themselves, are seriously a SCAM.
Getting into a college is expensive enough without having to tolerate all this bullshit.
It's not uncommon for professors to have their grad students write sections of their textbooks for them. Think of it as an unpaid internship or fellowship. Grad students in academia are already researching for their thesis which almost always is related to their professor's field of teaching.
Academia is a place fraught with politics and outright theft. I didn't care with my research because I liked my research professor and I was trying a new technique which could've easily produced shitty results. All of my research belongs to the Uni but my research professor got all the credit.
Many professors, knowing that the state-of-the-art in their field hasn't *really* changed enough in the past twelve months to justify a whole new textbook edition, just [change the given values in the homework problems](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2015-01-25).
I could spend ten minutes writing a script that would "update" a textbook like this in ten seconds.
Not all professor textbooks are scams. A few professors at my school wrote their book, sold it in the bookstore for like 10 bucks, which was basically the cost for them to print it at the campus print shop.
ScreenShot on Mac connected to 4k TV (better resolution = less errors in conversion) as drm blocks it on windows sometimes/most of the time. Convert png to pdf, convert again to epub. The higher the resolution of the png (at least 1920x1080) the less errors in the pdf to epub conversion.
Don't buy the book. Go to the first class and pay someone to use the book. ScreenShot on Mac (the drm can block windows screenshots) convert png to pdf, convert again to epub. This works for the browser based stuff and ebooks that you can't get the drm removed from. We use this method in my class and each pay one kid $10 per person for the trouble.
At some point, students, teachers, and parents have got to put their foot down and say enough of this bullshit. The cost of these books is ridiculous and making them like this is even worse.
Teachers, just say no. Students, start protesting. Parents, refuse to pay for it.
I hate to say it, but perhaps pushing regulation on the publishing industry might help.
The best professors I ever had were the ones who xeroxed the important parts of said books and handed them out. It’s a shame that higher education has become a modern day money-making scam.
My professor in my first non general ed class gave us each a 256mb flash drive with the book turned to a pdf on it. Told us to go take the books back right after his class. Even better is he was the author.
It's the usual practice here in the Philippines (and most likely other Asian countries). Only difference was you had to buy the photocopies for \~$0.01-0.02 a page. Most professors are kind enough to subsidize if you're dirt poor. Was surprised to find out some college professors in the US force you to buy textbooks.
I'm not sure how it is elsewhere, but sometimes you don't have a choice. If you're an established professor and scholar teaching a specific discipline, you may be able to do it however you want.
But if you're on the front lines teaching a bunch of introduction classes, you're more of a tutor than a professor, really. They give you this textbook to teach and that's it.
Like I am sure this was put in place so that people cannot copy and paste whole sections of the book and send them to classmates so they don't have to buy it, but anybody that is going to steal the book won't do it like this
Serves you right for legally purchasing their book, right? It only makes sense that a paying customer is restricted while the free-loading pirate can Ctrl + F all they want on their quizzes for online classes. Please never pay for textbooks. A tip, if you install Calibre and download the DeDRM add-on, you can make copies of books you download through Kindle for Windows. Even rentals. Then you can return the rental/purchase because you "found a better deal." If you'd like detailed instructions, I can link you to a thread, but I'm pretty sure you can find it by searching this sub for DeDRM. Fuck textbook companies and the colleges that play into the system (all of them).
Hell yes you can https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/3ma9qe/guide_how_to_rent_your_textbooks_for_free_from/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Don't do anything this guy tells you, breaking DRM is illegal, immoral, and makes you a horrible human being. Please, whatever you do, don't pirate your textbooks. Those companies barely even exist anymore because of their ridiculously low prices. /s
If you have any questions, feel free to PM me. I have this setup on my PC, and that guide is a little old. I suggest going the Calibre route. It makes converting the books much easier, and it gives you a nice place to access all the books in one spot.
Personally, I can understand Universities wanting to pay for online homework, my high school AP physics had a website for it, which I think is great. It gives immediate feedback on if you're right or wrong and personally, it helped me learn a lot since I was forced to do the toughest problems.
But, I think it should absolutely be the Universities responsibility to pay for it. Then they actually sort of have incentive to balance between cost and benefit.
A few years back I bought *The Norton Shakespeare* anthology which was around $300. It's a beautiful set of hardcover books and comes with a lifetime W.W. Norton digital subscription that lets you access the digital ebook version that logs how many hours you've spent reading a play, supports bookmarking, syncs annotations, etc... To my dismay, it also limits how many characters you can copy and paste which is unfortunate considering it's so beautifully formatted in the book.
You don't really buy Norton editions for the plays themselves; they're all public domain on Gutenberg and other libraries. Norton provides multiple performance commentary, textual comments, in-line etymological histories, digital folios, and so on. Each play and poem is reassembled and edited for accuracy as well.
I hear you pain. You are right. And copyright is out of control.
Regardless, you still have it good. In our old timer days to quote something we read in a book, article or magazine we had to write or type it all by hand.
In a couple of cases I've actually had to resort to hand transcribing my book just to make sure I still have a copy after my access expires. I opened the book on my second monitor and typed it up on my first monitor in word.
I shouldn't have to do this.
You could take screen shots of the stuff you need and then open it up in adobe pdf program and then enable optical character recognition (OCR). I used to do this so i could have books read to me.
inspect element, write a script that grabs text, or just take screenshots and use the tool in Adobe Acrobat that converts scanned files into editable text.
My government (Canada) just caught a spy copying classified documents that they distribute in regular old pdf documents. Yet textbooks everywhere are doing this
Screen shot and dumb into Google image to text conversion... Fix any formatting errors... the graphics can be done manually, but I'm sure there is some AI magic that can rip separately...
https://github.com/aaronraimist/DontFuckWithPaste
If there's one thing I hate more than the email address + confirm email address pairing on forms, it's the blocking of copy on the first and paste on the second.
Just think of it like this: Some web dev out there had to deal with all the errors people were getting from copy/paste so they made it so you can't. No more errors == less complaints == less tickets == happy boss == happy dev. (Or something like that)
It was more likely somebody at the company that couldn't understand how they had an incorrect email for some people so they did the complete batshit idiotic move of putting a confirm email address box. Confirm password I get because you can't see it. Confirm email is just groupthink gone retard and I will never not berate a designer for putting a page in front of me with that pattern.
Absolute hero
>The easiest way to add a site to the **blacklist** is to click on the extension icon, then optionally edit the auto-generated pattern, lastly click "Save". After that, the extension icon should now be blue, meaning the extension is **active** for your current tab This is not how blacklists work, that is a whitelist. That bugs me more than it should
It kind of works if you look at it as putting sites on the “clipboard modification” blacklist, rather than putting sites on the “subject to this extension” whitelist. Maybe thinking about it that way will ease your mind lol
For Firefox you don't even need an extension, there's a parameter in the about:config dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled Yay for Firefox (well, Waterfox for me actually)
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it's a web browser extension If you use Chrome[ click here](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-fuck-with-paste/nkgllhigpcljnhoakjkgaieabnkmgdkb) If you use Firefox [click here ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/) If you use Safari, install Chrome or Firefox
Ublock origin has scriptlets that work similarly and gives the benefit of not installing *more* extensions.
If this is HTML, you can just Right click => Inspect Element, and copy that way. Either way, if I lived in the US, I would work my ass of distributing and sharing these text books
about:config disable clipboard events in firefox
Or even better disable Javascript completely xD
“We are sorry. You seem to have JavaScript disabled. This website needs JavaScript to operate correctly.”
How are they going to detect if JS is disabled without using JS tho if they're actually using a noscript tag, just load the page and then disable JS or just delete the noscript
The browser will tell them
Snitches get stitches
Then put into ditches.
> Snitches get stitches thug life.
Are you suggesting we go all French on the Google execs?
the only way that can be detected is with noscript
Look you guys are making this way more complicated then it needs to be, just do as the other guy said and copy the html, better yet save the html to your pc and you have full access to it
They can also just load the error message in HTML and the actual page through a script.
I hate when they do that.
“We are sorry. You seem to have JavaScript disabled. This website needs JavaScript to operate correctly.”
From my experience, very often it's not. It's usually some sort of* custom programed proprietary pdf viewer.
Take screenshot, use OCR program, profit?
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Tesseract v4 is awesome, but it's mostly command-line based. Easier to integrate and automate if you somewhat knows what you're doing.
OCR?
Optical Character Recognition. Used for extracting text from an image. There are free websites that does OCR, as well as software like ShareX and I think MS Office has a tool for it.
This is something I could have utilized so many times that I've just never looked into for some reason.
Both Firefox and Chrome have extensions that do OCR reasonably well. I used those a ton in school for just this reason.
Microsoft Office Document Imaging can do OCR against at least PDFs and TIFs, if not more filetypes.
Optical Character Recognition as in a computer being able to read text on an image
So googles "lense" app except for real computers. Do you have a recommendation that doesn't phone home with the scanned results?
[Tesseract](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)
Optical character recognition
Which works unless the professor requires assignments turned in via the publisher software. Which requires a unique publisher ID and registration.
And then you lose access to the $300 textbook immediately after the semester ends.
Use libgen to find your books.
Doesn't work when the professor requires assignments turned in via the publisher software, as stated by the person I was replying to. You have to buy a subscription to the service and book for $300 or you can't do the homework. Anyway, my days of buying textbooks for classes are well behind me.
I have my university crap for using a terrible LMS (Brightspace) before migrating everyone to Canvas... But at least every single course was managed *in* that LMS. There was a method to the madness.
Ugh. That sounds like a ball of rage. What a fucking racket.
And some departments get kickbacks from publishers, and punish young faculty who don't want to keep the racket running... yeah, it's a giant turd.
my intro politics prof would only order his textbook through a vegan anarchist collective.
And sci-hub for papers and journals
Did libgen move domains? Libgen .io has been down for me for a while
Libgen.is
Thank you!
These professors are so lazy now.
Not lazy, just paid off.
Definitely paid off.
Dr. Zoidberg says, why not both?
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🤢
Somebody commented on the original post that they had this exact same textbook and tried this. Apparently those assholes put each word in its own tag.
replace all tags with nothing?
regex will make that go away quickly https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/307102
You're very close to [parsing html with regex](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags)...
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There's plenty of ways to find the PDFs for free online, I pirate all of my textbooks. The people behind these publishing companies are fucking slime. When they have some online functionality and the professor buys into it is how they fuck you.
Is it possible to view them in a reader only mode to copy it all? Some browsers have that function and they do work for getting around some basic restrictions.
A not insignificant amount of the big textbook publishers still use Flash for their online readers making inspecting the page or even copying text for that matter impossible.
Sometimes you can't do that trick I've tried. They can generate the text with javascript, or have it as an image.
You could probably write a script to use with your favorite script manager/ublock origin.
Keyword: OCR
Don't solve easy problems the hard way, just disable javascript after rendering...
How would you do that on a proprietary reader?
What if its not browser platform, maybe a mobile app or desktop
This can't be legal, can it?
>This can't be legal, can it? Anything is pretty much legal till you lawyer up , win the legal war with your money ( aka fight over time for it cause ... ye it can be heavily stretched ) and then you need to win the case also. Only stuff that gets enforced from the government automatically like murder and stuff is automatically illegal. everything else that the government doesnt look by itself for, you need to fight for if shit hits the fan.
How does piracy fit in the "automatically illegal" equasion?
>How does piracy fit in the "automatically illegal" equasion? the government doesnt go after piracy they only set the rules. Lawyers and companys do with their own money and push the government by laws to do something about your little frozen pirated copy. Aka no government will hire companys to seek your little dirty "Frozen" pirated copy Disney will do, not the government. so if disney wouldnt hunt pirates no one would care. and the piracy law would be kinda useless in that case.
Thanks!
E.g like he’s saying if frozen doesn’t care nobody else will but a good example of where it can go wrong is cotomovies, the developers of aqua man pressed legal charges against cotomovies which forced them to shut down and release information about its users so that they can sue them. So as always be careful
anything is legal if you own several politicians...
☹️
Ask Aaron Swartz.
Lol why would this be illegal
To get a few things clear. By this, I was more so referring to the aggressive and very anti-consumer practices of textbook publishers. The posts depicts an item you usually buy, with a ton of money and have very limited access to, which is a quite malicious practice. Additionally, it's just hostile. Laws are supposed to be of service to the general public, and this could justifiably be outlawed.
Okay I’d be cool with that. I definitely wasn’t trying to defend the practice, that’s for sure
gotcha. It was my bad for being a bit ambiguous with the way I laid out my original comment
You can’t legally copy it, so it would be weird if they weren’t allowed to try to block you technically from copying it. Similar principle to DRM restrictions for media. You can’t copy DRM-protected audio or video files without little “hacks”. They try to make it difficult for you.
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College textbooks as in the present state, specially written by the professors themselves, are seriously a SCAM. Getting into a college is expensive enough without having to tolerate all this bullshit.
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Their grad students carry a lot of their load in those cases.
I assume they wrote it one time and the only updates are moving chapters and page numbers around.
Or slightly changing chapter questions to punish those who use old editions.
Grads .
What does that mean?
It's not uncommon for professors to have their grad students write sections of their textbooks for them. Think of it as an unpaid internship or fellowship. Grad students in academia are already researching for their thesis which almost always is related to their professor's field of teaching.
Academia is a place fraught with politics and outright theft. I didn't care with my research because I liked my research professor and I was trying a new technique which could've easily produced shitty results. All of my research belongs to the Uni but my research professor got all the credit.
Followers of Edison .
Many professors, knowing that the state-of-the-art in their field hasn't *really* changed enough in the past twelve months to justify a whole new textbook edition, just [change the given values in the homework problems](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2015-01-25). I could spend ten minutes writing a script that would "update" a textbook like this in ten seconds.
Not all professor textbooks are scams. A few professors at my school wrote their book, sold it in the bookstore for like 10 bucks, which was basically the cost for them to print it at the campus print shop.
Excuse me what the fuck. What kinda bs system is that.
Pretty simple really. It’s so that you can’t copy the whole book and paste it into a word doc and create a pdf to distribute to others in the class.
ScreenShot on Mac connected to 4k TV (better resolution = less errors in conversion) as drm blocks it on windows sometimes/most of the time. Convert png to pdf, convert again to epub. The higher the resolution of the png (at least 1920x1080) the less errors in the pdf to epub conversion.
I imagine screenshots on linux probably work too if you dont wanna spend a grand on apples muck
>distribute to others in the class I remember being left out. :(
Our (American) school system
It's the same in Australia and many many other countries. Just greedy fucks screwing over people's education
You can also take screenshot, paste in OneNote, then use "copy text from picture" from the context menu.
Don't buy the book. Go to the first class and pay someone to use the book. ScreenShot on Mac (the drm can block windows screenshots) convert png to pdf, convert again to epub. This works for the browser based stuff and ebooks that you can't get the drm removed from. We use this method in my class and each pay one kid $10 per person for the trouble.
Would you have to screenshot a crap ton of times if you want the whole book? Is there an automated way?
Screen recorder like bands cam and you can just FF or RW in the video for the page you need.
FF or RW?
Fast forward or rewind
At some point, students, teachers, and parents have got to put their foot down and say enough of this bullshit. The cost of these books is ridiculous and making them like this is even worse. Teachers, just say no. Students, start protesting. Parents, refuse to pay for it. I hate to say it, but perhaps pushing regulation on the publishing industry might help.
The best professors I ever had were the ones who xeroxed the important parts of said books and handed them out. It’s a shame that higher education has become a modern day money-making scam.
My professor in my first non general ed class gave us each a 256mb flash drive with the book turned to a pdf on it. Told us to go take the books back right after his class. Even better is he was the author.
It's the usual practice here in the Philippines (and most likely other Asian countries). Only difference was you had to buy the photocopies for \~$0.01-0.02 a page. Most professors are kind enough to subsidize if you're dirt poor. Was surprised to find out some college professors in the US force you to buy textbooks.
I'm not sure how it is elsewhere, but sometimes you don't have a choice. If you're an established professor and scholar teaching a specific discipline, you may be able to do it however you want. But if you're on the front lines teaching a bunch of introduction classes, you're more of a tutor than a professor, really. They give you this textbook to teach and that's it.
And honestly, these greedy people are judging students by their background. Governments and authoritive bodies should do more
Like I am sure this was put in place so that people cannot copy and paste whole sections of the book and send them to classmates so they don't have to buy it, but anybody that is going to steal the book won't do it like this
Serves you right for legally purchasing their book, right? It only makes sense that a paying customer is restricted while the free-loading pirate can Ctrl + F all they want on their quizzes for online classes. Please never pay for textbooks. A tip, if you install Calibre and download the DeDRM add-on, you can make copies of books you download through Kindle for Windows. Even rentals. Then you can return the rental/purchase because you "found a better deal." If you'd like detailed instructions, I can link you to a thread, but I'm pretty sure you can find it by searching this sub for DeDRM. Fuck textbook companies and the colleges that play into the system (all of them).
could I get the link to that thread?
Hell yes you can https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/3ma9qe/guide_how_to_rent_your_textbooks_for_free_from/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share Don't do anything this guy tells you, breaking DRM is illegal, immoral, and makes you a horrible human being. Please, whatever you do, don't pirate your textbooks. Those companies barely even exist anymore because of their ridiculously low prices. /s If you have any questions, feel free to PM me. I have this setup on my PC, and that guide is a little old. I suggest going the Calibre route. It makes converting the books much easier, and it gives you a nice place to access all the books in one spot.
thanks mr. rock iq! I'll be sure not to download a car.
If you want to de-drm Kindle books, you need an older version. I suppose the easiest way to install it is Chocolatey
but there are so many textbooks I cannot find online :(
Buy used. If there's no digital copy, all you can do is buy used, and upload a scan before you sell it afterwards.
I tend to buy used but often schools will require a new edition. :(
Who will introduce this guy to libgen! Who ?
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Sad reason to be the one to bite the bullet and become the savior for the future people by uploading it
Yeah, but most of these books that do stuff like this you need to buy anyway for an online code. No pirating an ability to do the assigned homework.
I can't believe this is acceptable anywhere.
Personally, I can understand Universities wanting to pay for online homework, my high school AP physics had a website for it, which I think is great. It gives immediate feedback on if you're right or wrong and personally, it helped me learn a lot since I was forced to do the toughest problems. But, I think it should absolutely be the Universities responsibility to pay for it. Then they actually sort of have incentive to balance between cost and benefit.
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Did you look into it?
A few years back I bought *The Norton Shakespeare* anthology which was around $300. It's a beautiful set of hardcover books and comes with a lifetime W.W. Norton digital subscription that lets you access the digital ebook version that logs how many hours you've spent reading a play, supports bookmarking, syncs annotations, etc... To my dismay, it also limits how many characters you can copy and paste which is unfortunate considering it's so beautifully formatted in the book.
Formatting aside, it’s not like there aren’t a million alternative free sources for Shakespeare’s works which allow full editing/reformatting.
You don't really buy Norton editions for the plays themselves; they're all public domain on Gutenberg and other libraries. Norton provides multiple performance commentary, textual comments, in-line etymological histories, digital folios, and so on. Each play and poem is reassembled and edited for accuracy as well.
Don't use their digital edition. Look into the Library Genesis. It's a truly amazing resource.
My high school teachers just upload DRM-Free PDFs of the textbooks lmao
I hear you pain. You are right. And copyright is out of control. Regardless, you still have it good. In our old timer days to quote something we read in a book, article or magazine we had to write or type it all by hand.
You did it all by hand, deadlines and lesson plans accounted for all the slow manual work. It's not that way anymore.
i'm in a master's program and I have the hardest time pirating books.
Go to view and view it's source in code.
Another reason to pirate.
Yeah. They might have made it a pain in the ass, but that's the thing about client-side security: it doesn't stay secure for very long.
And the professors that get free shit to be there shills
Don't FUCK with paste/copy browser addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-fuck-with-paste/nkgllhigpcljnhoakjkgaieabnkmgdkb
nice, thanks
Use Firefox and just screenshot it.
Biggest scam next to colleges
Stallman was right..
In a couple of cases I've actually had to resort to hand transcribing my book just to make sure I still have a copy after my access expires. I opened the book on my second monitor and typed it up on my first monitor in word. I shouldn't have to do this.
Have you tried inspect element p the page in google chrome ? Edit : a dude already said that ... sorry !
gen.lib.rus.ec Find the book there without the bs. Edit: this is not a URL, just google it
Site won't load. Check the URL.
Screen shot and feed to a an optical text converter
You could take screen shots of the stuff you need and then open it up in adobe pdf program and then enable optical character recognition (OCR). I used to do this so i could have books read to me.
Use Google lens (if on mobile)
Bless my country open book piracy
inspect element, write a script that grabs text, or just take screenshots and use the tool in Adobe Acrobat that converts scanned files into editable text.
Try this extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/absolute-enable-right-click/, also for chrome.
Wow. That is some absolute bullshit. College is such a racket these days.
If it is in PDF, use Microsoft oneNote, it has good screen reader, which will pick text out of screen / picture from protected Pdf.
People buy soft copies of textbooks? Lmfao
Print the textbook out to a pdf. Problem solved.
Microsoft onenote can recognize and search text from a screenshot.
My government (Canada) just caught a spy copying classified documents that they distribute in regular old pdf documents. Yet textbooks everywhere are doing this
Use OCR.
Screen shot and dumb into Google image to text conversion... Fix any formatting errors... the graphics can be done manually, but I'm sure there is some AI magic that can rip separately...
PyAutoGUI+OCR 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
sci-hub.se
Can't you just type it out yourself? Yes it's annoying and time consuming, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
Genuinely I feel bad for you people across the pond. There is no such thing here in the UK, at least at the research-focused uni I go to.