Bedtime: So you copied Kindle e-books today - Giga.de

Well, with the copy protection that is such a thing. When we buy an e-book on the Kindle, we can not read it on the Kobo. A professor came up with an unconventional idea how to bypass the copy protection.

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No, we do not want to bypass the copy protection – which is prohibited. But that would be a way:

Lego Mindstorm kit acts as a robot. Alternately he makes by pressing a button with the camera of the MacBook Pro a photo and then scroll on the Kindle to. Then the next photo, turn the page, and so on. The photos are converted to plain text using OCR – that is the e-book copy

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marketable concept, and the idea is also not intended as a manual copy. Peter Purgathofer, associate professor in Vienna, it would rather encourage the discussion about DRM. Provides e-books from Amazon with strict copy protection. A few years ago, recalls Purgathofer, the CEO of the bookseller took another view. Anyone who buys a book, must also have the right to give it, give away or resell