How to download books from Archive org and how to remove d r m protection of the

downloaded book using Calibre

Guide
Hello everyone… In this guide I’m going to show you how to download books from
archive and how to remove drm protection of the downloaded book using Calibre. This
guide is complete and 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 the book:

Sign up and login to archive.org (very important step)

Now download adobe digital editions, it is a free pc software from adobe, just open
this site and then download and install the software:
https://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/download.html

Now the next thing you need to do after you install adobe digital edition, is to
open the software and authorize your computer, in other terms login to your adobe
digital edition account… In order to do that, start adobe digital edition program,
then go to help and enter to Authorize Computer… Now here you have 2 options:
either create and id with password, which you can do by pressing 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 authorize my computer without an ID" and press next… your
done

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

Calibre is a free software used mainly to convert between different 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 top menu far
right hand side

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.

A new screen will pop up, and you need to click the "Load plugin from file" button
at the bottom right corner.

Point the software to the folder you unzipped Alf's tools to, then click on the
"DeDRM_calibre_plugin" folder.

Then highlight the "DeDRM_plugin.zip" file, and hit the Open button. Click Yes when
the virus warning starts up. Shut down Calibre, and then fire it up once more.

B. Second Part: how to download the books from Archive

For this part you must understand that any book available at archive, you need to
borrow it first, then you need to download the URLLINK.acsm that will be used by
adobe digital edition, that’s why 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

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_2cwpmxgUymF5OAoHZbXCO3Qh9gQVAHuR0
/edit#gid=0

A Big thanks to “u/look_who_it_isnt” he was the one who provided 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…

PS: Some people are having problems downloading the spreadsheet, not sure why,
probably because the site is blocked in your country or probably because they are
using phone or a mac laptop, so if any problem occurred I advise you not to use a
phone like android or iphone, and not to use mac, instead use a laptop with windows
installed, and use google chrome as your browser… in extreme cases just use a vpn
if the site is blocked in your country

Then download the spreadsheet (excel)

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

You must have already clicked "Borrow for 1 hour" and have Adobe Digital Editions
installed and set up

From the URL of the Archive book, copy the Identifier. Example: For
https://archive.org/details/legalfoundations0000comm, the Identifier is
"legalfoundations0000comm"

Paste the Identifier into this next link by replacing the “XXXXXXXXXXXXX”

https://archive.org/services/loans/loan/?
action=media_url&identifier=XXXXXXXXXXXXX&format=pdf&redirect=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 to your download folder, which
you will need it in the next steps

After the URLLINK.acsm is downloaded open it with adobe digital 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 calibre, then add your pdf file, that you want
to remove the DRM from, to calibre, then calibre will automatically remove the drm
using the plugin that was already added to calibre

And that's it You can find the pdf file without the DRM protection at this
location: C:\Users\your.pc.username\CalibreLibrary Good luck

Most people tried it and worked for them, so if it worked for you, make sure to
leave a comment bellow, and if it didn’t, please mention your problem in detail in
the comments and what did you do step by step so we can help you out and so others
can learn too

UPDATE1: if anyonw would like to download the images of the book for higher
quality, here how to do it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/fm1xpw/
internet_archive_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, 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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