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I don't suppose this is going to work well with their comics/graphic novels, will it?

I stopped buying ebooks from Amazon some time ago and switched completely to Kobo (and their much-more-easily-defeated DRM), but Amazon's acquisition of Comixology means they've still got by far the best collection of digital comics on the market.

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I haven't gotten images working yet, they have some weird obfuscation applied to them as well

I’m sure you already know this but I’ve actually had a lot of success getting comics on hoopla with my library card. Obviously this completely depends on your local library but if you haven’t it’s worth looking in to! Has what I want a solid 35% of the time. Not the newest releases but I’ve gotten stuff that’s only 6 to 12 months old without much issue

Not my use-case. I have roughly 250 legitimately purchased graphic novels and manga purchased from Amazon over the years that I'd want to backup.

I have about half of them already ripped, from an earlier time when the Kindle4PC application was easier to crack. But I still grab new comics from time to time.

My bad I should’ve clarified this wasn’t meant to be a specific solution to the Kindle problem so much as an available option for the future!

Slightly off-topic, but while we're at it: for all it's DRM hell and shenanigans, the Amazon kindle store is currently the absolute best way to grab foreign ebooks wherever you live on the globe.

Most local ebook stores will put undue barriers on who can purchase what because of generic region policies and/or their publishing contracts being country limited. Amazon will accept any valid credit card from anywhere as long as you create an account on the dedicated store. It's digital goods so you can also fill in any random address if needed.

> the Amazon kindle store is currently the absolute best way to grab foreign ebooks wherever you live on the globe

No, piracy is.

As much as I also want that narrative to be true, the amount of books that will never be pirated for whatever reason is just massive.

Comics need a full "image" for the page, so this is unlikely to work. Can you inspect the requests and see what you get?

Or to the author: what happens to images in the ebook?

If all you need is an image, can't you just use browser automation tools to screenshot each page? After all, much of the content is in images so it's not like you need it OCRed for accessibility purposes.

If you can live with lower quality image. Most people probably will be ok with that though.

It will depend on the books, but the images aren't that high resolution in general.

I've had some slightly blurry on 2.8x1.9k screens, especially the older ones.

you just tell puppeteer to change resolution

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