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 Television  Hello everyone… In this guide I’m going to show you how to
Celebrity download books from archive and how to remove drm protection
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of the downloaded book using Calibre. This guide is complete and
 More Topics  it is based on: my own experience, some research I done, some
help I got from others which I will provide the references…

In Summary, To download a book from archive, you need to be

signed in to archive, then open the page of the book you want to
download, Borrow the book either for 14 days or 1 hour, then you
need to download the URLLINK.acsm that will be used by adobe
digital edition to download the book as pdf… each book have its
own URLLINK.acsm file… but the downloaded pdf book will have a
drm protection meaning you can only open the book using adobe
digital edition and you cannot edit it or anything like that… in later
steps we will learn how to remove this drm using Calibre with a
plugging for drm remove

PS: In Order for this to work, make sure you follow the mentioned
steps to the letter, even it’s a lot of reading and stuff but once
done right the first time, it will be much easier the 2nd time

Now lets get started:

A. First part: Preparation Steps you need to do before downloading

Create an account to follow the book:
your favorite communities
and start taking part in 1. Sign up and login to archive.org (very important step)
conversations. 2. Now download adobe digital editions, it is a free pc software
from adobe, just open this site and then download and install
Join Reddit the software:
https://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-
editions/download.html

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Now the next thing you need to do after you install adobe digital
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edition, is to open the software and authorize your computer, in
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other terms login to your adobe digital edition account… In order
to do that, start adobe digital edition program, then go to help and
 Home enter to Authorize Computer… Now here you have 2 options:
either create and id with password, which you can do by pressing
 Popular on create an adobe ID, OR you can skip this step by Pressing the
mark at the bottom of the new popped window saying: "i want to
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authorize my computer without an ID" and press next… your done

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3) As already stated the downloaded Book is DRM protected so you
need to remove the DRM protection, For that you will need the
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next software installed: 1)Calibre 2)Plugin for Calibre that will
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remove the drm

Calibre is a free software used mainly to convert between different

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document formats like pdf, epub, mobi...
 First, here how to download Calibre:
 To download calibre, go to this site: https://calibre-ebook.com/
 then go to downloads and choose your operating system, here you
can download either the latest version, or go to Previous releases
 of caliber where you can download earlier versions

 PS: I highly recommend you to download calibre v4.23 instead of

lastest version, cz it is confirmed that some people are having
 issues with calibre v5 not working with the drm remover pluggin

Second, Calibre supports many plugins, one of the plugins we

need to add to calibre is the one for "DRM-REMOVER", so you need
to download the plugin… Here is the link to download the plugin:

https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-
tools-for-ebooks/

From this link you will find a link for github… Click on it… Which
takes you to the download link…

You can download the latest version but i also recommend to

download "DeDRM plug-in 6.8.0" instead of the latest version...
Then extract the zip

Here is the guide to follow in order to add the plugin to caliber

You'll download a .zip file containing three folders and a

readme.txt file; unzip them to a new folder on your desktop.

Now fire up Calibre, and click the large Preference button on the
Create an account to follow
your favorite communities top menu far right hand side
and start taking part in
conversations. Sometimes The preference button might be hidden so you need to
click on the 3 small dots in a vertical position at the top right
corner where you can find the preference menu

Then Select the "Change Calibre behavior" option, then scroll

down to the advanced section before clicking on Plugins.

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A new screen will pop up, and you need to click the "Load plugin
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from file" button at the bottom right corner.
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Point the software to the folder you unzipped Alf's tools to, then
click on the "DeDRM_calibre_plugin" folder.
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Then highlight the "DeDRM_plugin.zip" file, and hit the Open

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button. Click Yes when the virus warning starts up. Shut down
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r/Piracy B. Second Part: how to download the books from Archive

r/Hexonia For this part you must understand that any book available at
archive, you need to borrow it first, then you need to download the
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it is very important to be signed in, and there are 2 types of
 borrow: 1) borrow the book for 14 days and 2) Borrow the book for
1 hour
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1. borrow the book for 14 days: What you need to do is go to
 the archive page of the book you want then click on borrow
the book for 14 days, then press on download PDF/ePub…
 Then press on download the book, i highly recommend to
download the book as pdf not epub cz the epub version is
 mostly corrupted and have missing parts… then a file called
 URLLINK.acsm get downloaded to your pc, mainly to your
download folder, it is very small like few kb, you will need this
 file in the next steps

PS: IF SOMEONE ELSE BORROWED THE BOOK FOR 14 DAYS, YOU

CANNOT BORROW IT UNLIT HE/SHE RETURNS IT, OR THE 14 DAYS
PERIODE EXPIRE

2_ Borrow the book for 1 hour: these types of borrow does not
have a download link on archive page like the 14 days borrowing
period do, SO you cannot download URLLINK.acsm the usual way,
but there is a work around it in order to be able to download the
URLLINK.acsm file which will help us download the pdf book

So first make sure you click on borrow this book for 1 hour (very
important step)

Next step, there is a spreadsheet (excel format) that can generate

the download link for the URLLINK.acsm file of the book you want
to download

Here is the link for the spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x9JHIVEa6_2cwpmxgUy
Create an account to follow mF5OAoHZbXCO3Qh9gQVAHuR0/edit#gid=0
your favorite communities
and start taking part in A Big thanks to “u/look_who_it_isnt” he was the one who provided
conversations. me with the spreadsheet link

This link is for google so you need to be signed in to your Gmail in

order to download this spreadsheet…

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PS: Some people are having problems downloading the

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spreadsheet, not sure why, probably because the site is blocked in
your country or probably because they are using phone or a mac
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laptop, so if any problem occurred I advise you not to use a phone
 Home like android or iphone, and not to use mac, instead use a laptop
with windows installed, and use google chrome as your browser…
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country
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Then download the spreadsheet (excel)

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In the extreme cases, if the spreadsheet (excel) could not be
r/Hexonia downloaded, I will teach you how to create your own download
link for the URLLINK.acsm file, without the need for the
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spreadsheet, so here how to do it:

 1. You must have already clicked "Borrow for 1 hour" and have
Adobe Digital Editions installed and set up
 2. From the URL of the Archive book, copy the Identifier.
 Example: For
https://archive.org/details/legalfoundations0000comm, the
 Identifier is "legalfoundations0000comm"
3. Paste the Identifier into this next link by replacing the
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“XXXXXXXXXXXXX”
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https://archive.org/services/loans/loan/?
 action=media_url&identifier=XXXXXXXXXXXXX&format=pdf&redirec
t=1

So the New link would be:

https://archive.org/services/loans/loan/?
action=media_url&identifier=legalfoundations0000comm&format=
pdf&redirect=1

Another example for this:

Archive link: https://archive.org/details/pasta0000unse_m6m5

Identifier: pasta0000unse_m6m5

URLLINK.acsm download file link:

https://archive.org/services/loans/loan/?
action=media_url&identifier=pasta0000unse_m6m5&format=pdf&
redirect=1

Now open the URLLINK.acsm link you got in your browser, anda
file called URLLINK.acsm get downloaded to your pc, also mainly
Create an account to follow to your download folder, which you will need it in the next steps
your favorite communities
and start taking part in After the URLLINK.acsm is downloaded open it with adobe digital
conversations. edition, and let it download the whole book you want as pdf file.
the downloaded pdf file usually you can find it at
C:/Users/your.pc.username/Documents/MyDigitalEdition… as
already stated the downloaded book is DRM protected so you
need to remove the DRM protection… In order to do so, open

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calibre, then add your pdf file, that you want to remove the DRM
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from, to calibre, then calibre will automatically remove the drm
using the plugin that was already added to calibre
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And that's it You can find the pdf file without the DRM protection
 Home at this location: C:\Users\your.pc.username\CalibreLibrary Good
luck
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Most people tried it and worked for them, so if it worked for you,
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mention your problem in detail in the comments and what did you
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do step by step so we can help you out and so others can learn too
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UPDATE1: if anyonw would like to download the images of the
book for higher quality, here how to do it:
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/fm1xpw/internet_arch
 ive_borrowing_picture_books/

 Credit to this link:

 u/look_who_it_isnt created the guide

 u/disgraphical shared this link

 UPDATE2: another way you can download the images straight from
the archive viewer, is by saving the whole page on your desktop,
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you can do that by pressing on ctrl+S which will save the web page
 as html, and with it comes a folder which contain the images
pages

But this will only save the last few pages you have viewed of the
book, just make sure you zoom the page to your preferences, cz
the more you zoom in, the more the saved images will be better in
quality... but it is very time consuming, not recommended, just use
a cache viewer as described in the link provided in update 1

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dysgraphical · 2 yr. ago

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Create an account to follow
your favorite communities Thanks for the write-up! I do want to mention that by
and start taking part in deDRMing the acsm file, you aren't getting the full
conversations. quality scan that you see in Archive.org's bookreader.
This is fine if you're not as pedantic about having a
native scan. However, this other method lets you rip the
native jp2 files from bookreader:

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