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https://next.content.town/p/kindle-drm-deadline-is-approaching yeah yeah I should do this already
Okay so to download my Kindle books I could use https://github.com/treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader, that in turn requires using bun which . . . appears to be yet another NodeJS package manager? Fantastic, that'll definitely work, it won't immediately fail like every other time I've touched the NodeJS ecosystem.
keithzg@district:~/Code/git/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader$ bun install
bun install v1.2.3 (8c4d3ff8)
📦 Installing [242/255] internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:819
throw new ERR_REQUIRE_ESM(filename);
^
Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: Must use import to load ES Module: /home/keithzg/Code/git/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader/node_modules/puppeteer/install.mjs
at Object.Module._extensions..mjs (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:819:9)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:641:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:556:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:837:10)
at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:11
error: postinstall script from "puppeteer" exited with 1Mysteriously, a subsequent bun install seems to have worked? Or maybe it just died in a way where it doesn't realize it needs to try again, because
keithzg@district:~/Code/git/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader$ bun puppeteer browsers install chrome
/home/keithzg/Code/git/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/cli.js:26
buildId: puppeteer_js_1.default.configuration.chrome?.version ||
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token .
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:718:23)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:785:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:641:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:556:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:837:10)
at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:11
error: "puppeteer" exited with code 1Yeah I think that's it, in standard "JavaScript devs reinvent wheel but badly" it doesn't seem to try to do the postinstall step and so it doesn't show that the same problem is happening.
https://github.com/treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader/issues/145 appears to be my same issue. Unfortunately the only reported solution there was to try Arch Linux.
I absolutely just gave up on the bulk downloads and just manually downloaded each of the mere 14 titles I "own" on Amazon's Kindle platform.
Funny enough, I didn't really need https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools in the end, I mean I did have a few titles that were DRM'd but the ones that were a bit obscure and so I reckoned it might be hard to find again were all free of DRM already! It was the ones I got super cheap or free that were bigger titles that I could have easily found a pirated copy of that were DRM'd.