Cafescrive - Because textbooks are too fucking expensive.

[EMOKDOOM]

Anyone know and care to share on how to extract books I've rented from Cafescribe?

I downloaded their offline app which lets me read the books I've rented if i ever lose connection to the interwebs. This required downloading each book individually; which had to be pretty decently sized files considering the long ass time they took to download. I'm convinced they're somewhere hidden on my hard drive. I've checked the program files but those bastards were a bit smarter then that(I guess..).

Why am i doing this? Because even though i couldn't buy my textbooks i rented them and still had to pay more then $100 for just one book and a stupid lab guide. That just doesn't sit well with me since i have to return them in 180 days and can't even carry them on my tablet.

Any input would help. Obviously I'll upload them to Evilzone if I'm successful. And yes they're computer related, software to be specific.

[Kulverstukas]

Maybe in the %temp% folder? maybe in the %appdata% folder?

[Fur]

Try to run the application in a sandbox, then look in the box's contents.

[EMOKDOOM]

Maybe in the %temp% folder? maybe in the %appdata% folder?

I think i found them thanks.

They're Data base files/ .enc. Any suggestions on to open these? I'd like to turn them into pdfs.

[Kulverstukas]

They're Data base files/ .enc. Any suggestions on to open these? I'd like to turn them into pdfs.

They are most likely encrypted somehow with a custom algo (most likely). You will need to reverse engineer the program and trace the encryption steps then reproduce them from ASM instructions into a working script/program to decrypt your files.

At this point you should ask yourself -- is it worth so much trouble?

[iTpHo3NiX]

At this point you should ask yourself -- is it worth so much trouble?

Concidering the price of textbooks, fuck yeah!!


What I would do since you can view them on the computer, get mspaint ready and your Prt Scr button ready. Open you're eBook up and make it as full screen as you can. Then go to each page and take a screenshot of your computer using the Prt Scr button. You can crop whatever needs to be cropped and then save each picture. In the end you have a lot of picture files that you just merge into 1 PDF. Enjoy!

[Kulverstukas]

What I would do since you can view them on the computer, get mspaint ready and your Prt Scr button ready. Open you're eBook up and make it as full screen as you can. Then go to each page and take a screenshot of your computer using the Prt Scr button. You can crop whatever needs to be cropped and then save each picture. In the end you have a lot of picture files that you just merge into 1 PDF. Enjoy!

We are programmers here, aren't we?
A quick python script could do that in few seconds

[iTpHo3NiX]

We are programmers here, aren't we?
A quick python script could do that in few seconds

Now you got a method, write up the script and share as a "CafeScribe Ripper" xD I'm sure a lot of collage students would find it useful, also GREATLY increase the textbook eBook shares (I have posted a few though the books run upwards of $300+)

[p_2001]

Concidering the price of textbooks, fuck yeah!!


What I would do since you can view them on the computer, get mspaint ready and your Prt Scr button ready. Open you're eBook up and make it as full screen as you can. Then go to each page and take a screenshot of your computer using the Prt Scr button. You can crop whatever needs to be cropped and then save each picture. In the end you have a lot of picture files that you just merge into 1 PDF. Enjoy!

y not use video screen capture and make flash??
Like those in reversing tuts?

alternately.. Run on VM... Change date after 180 days... Make a backup of dwnlded files and copy them there?

[EMOKDOOM]

I can't do any of those thing as I've just barely started to learn Python as my first language. Also i don't know do decrypt files myself; if there's a book or source you guys picked it up from i'd gladly take a look at it and try to do it myself though. I'll think about it as a learning process :]

The virtual box is a no because i want to have a PDF of my books so i can take them around a tablet or any other portable PDF reader.

[iTpHo3NiX]

I can't do any of those thing as I've just barely started to learn Python as my first language. Also i don't know do decrypt files myself; if there's a book or source you guys picked it up from i'd gladly take a look at it and try to do it myself though. I'll think about it as a learning process :]

The virtual box is a no because i want to have a PDF of my books so i can take them around a tablet or any other portable PDF reader.

You can do it how I originally said... All it takes is paint and the PrtScr button on your keyboard. You can then use  a picture to PDF creator. It's just time consuming. Maybe Kulver's in a sharing mood and will write up that Python script to share

[EMOKDOOM]

I hope he is. I'm out of coffee and motivation for the week.

Lol. Just kidding, i can do this, won't be done for a while however. The downside to this besides time is cropping in the full page without losing readability. The text is relatively small and it might need two screen caps to keep the quality from not being complete shit tier - which would take more time -_-

I'm sure when i have a day off and i realize how bad colleges rip you off with textbooks, i'll do it lol.

My old monitor could of made this a lot easier since i could  rotate my screen and I'd get a bigger screen cap.

[0poitr]

Check this out :: http://ebooks-it.org/
Best site at offering free tech ebooks yet.

[Kulverstukas]

I will try to do that script next week. This week I already have stuff to do.

[p_2001]

Ok, here is a new idea... Use screen capture software + keypresser ( dunno what they are called but they are used in games to bind complicated key combinations to one key or periodically press a key)...

Now, use the keypresser to press pgdwn after 5second intervals while recording the screen.

this way...>>you have a video with 5 seconds on each page.

now cut frames .

use the frames to make pdf..