So Amazon finally closed up the kindle 4 pc loophole (bah) and that means I need to learn how to find ebooks for the authors who insist on releasing exclusively on kindle.

Looks like ebook-hunter and the like are the way to go for that (and I set up a reminder to try to get an invite to myanonamouse and we'll see how that goes). But... that site uses tiny-files which is straight up cancer. Not the end of the world to click the same link and close the same blocked pop ups five times in a row for a one off but... yeah.

Back in the day we used apps like jdownloader to make this less painful but from checking out the flatpak... that might be actively malware at this point AND it wants me to install definitely malware browser plugins and the like.

So is there a better alternative? Preferably something I can run in a container on a random server.

Thanks.

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[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

You should try getting into MAM... As in you need to show up in IRC, answer some very basic questions and you're in... It really isn't a hard interview. It's a great community with a very easy ratio/bonus system.

Aside from that Anna's Archive is a great shadow library, it basically collects all the books from all the other shadow libraries.

If you want a quick download (Anna's Archive can be slow) you could check out zlibrary.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yep, you can pay with monero for faster direct downloads

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

JDownloader from the official site is not malware.

https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=54725

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Direct download is essentially dead in the US because of the relatively recent changes to file sharing laws.. XDCC, Torrenting, Usenet, P2P. Choose one. HTTP warez has long gone the way of the Dodo since Warez-BB died.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 12 hours ago

what is P2P? I thought that's the category the others fit into

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, I'm out of the loop, what has changed that killed direct downloads specifically in the US? I am using DDL sites quite frequently and haven't noticed any difference the past weeks/months.

[–] Gailthesnail2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

DDL is very alive. I use 3 sites very heavily

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago

Soulseek.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.snekerpimp.space 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Myanonamouse? With BitTorrent and gluten through a vpn, could be done with docker in a low end VPS relatively easily

[–] facow@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Libgen has always worked well for me

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 days ago

definitely malware browser plugins

It's only one, and browser extensions are trivially easy to "decompile" since they're not distributed compiled in the first place. The extensions are just zips or rars of the source code and metadata.