I’ve got legal, authorized access to cengage’s ebook platform. HOWEVER: their built-in ereader is absolute CRUD. Does anyone have a tool that can create an epub or pdf from a given cengage book?
I’ve already checked libgen, anna, ebsco, and the online databases. the book isnt already on there, so once I rip it, it’ll get uploaded by me.
I haven’t used that e reader in 3-4 years, but I remember using ublock to kill some of the scripts they had to allow me to copy/paste into my notesheet and stuff like that. It also made it slightly less shit to read
I’m not really able to help out right now beyond what I said, but fuck cengage, their books were such a pain to read. Fuck paying 120$ to rent that sack of shit for 90 days.
Good luck with this.
I’ve actually started writing a script… but it’s currently erroring out when trying to save the content, because selenium is stupid.
if you want to help out, here’s the git: https://github.com/grillgamesh/CENGAGE_RIPPER/tree/main
I CANT FUCKING GET THIS FILE STUFF TO WORK
IT FINDS THE ELEMENTS JUST FINE
BUT CANT FUCKING SAVE IT
(also hi from migrated account, i’m on dbzer0 now \o/)
https://library.bz/main/uploads/272C3A69705B306903AB3371B67E38DA
i did it by hand. god i fucking hate cengage. I’m washing my hands of this bullshit. if someone else wants to take over the github project, feel free. I’m fucking done. I’m off to get drunk and sleep.
A story of commits.
good fucking riddance. I’m done.