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I Bypassed Amazon's Kindle Web DRM Because Their App Sucked

21 hours ago
  • #Reverse Engineering
  • #Ebooks
  • #DRM
  • Author purchased an ebook from Amazon but faced issues with the Kindle Android app.
  • Amazon's restrictions prevented downloading or backing up the purchased book.
  • The author reverse-engineered Amazon's DRM system to access the book offline.
  • Amazon's DRM included randomized glyph IDs and multiple font variants to obfuscate text.
  • The author used SVG rendering and perceptual hashing to decode the glyphs accurately.
  • Successfully decoded and reconstructed the entire book into an EPUB format.
  • The project highlighted issues with digital ownership and DRM restrictions.