Probably the cut and paste from magazines, but you copy and paste the sentences you want to use. A lot of extra work, but no AI to rat you out.
Bristle1744
joined 8 months ago
Also third world countries where people can't afford to spend their yearly salary on a mouse.
The bad news is that uploading e-books will involve programming on your part (for your sanity at least).
The good news is that it should be far easier than other mediums.
If you are approaching from a complete safety perspective (cause you live in a fiefdom that owes tribute to the publishers guild), then you're going to want to OCR the pages of the book and use the text to make a brand new book free from metadata. I'm pretty sure a python crash course could get you up and running in a month or 6.
If you want what's closest to the original product, then you'll need a python script that strips everything from the book into just a text document, then re-convert back into your own book. You'll have to review the text document to see if any random code was included in the book like invisible text.
Both options are so simple from a programming perspective that I've never seen scripts to strip e-book protections. A real (the solution is left un-worked as a challenge for the reader). And from what I know, the publishers have switched to focusing on selling hard copies as their bread and butter, and striking deals with libraries for other revenue. Big money is still in mandatory university textbooks.
Source: Never actually done what you're asking for