Video from my July holiday. The route was Saint Petersburg — Riga — Berlin — Barcelona — Porto — Lisbon — Barcelona — Saint Petersburg. Riga and Barcelona were just stopovers. In Lisbon there was the Optimus Alive festival. Music — Slugabed; performances in the video — Zola Jesus, Tricky, The Cure, Radiohead.

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E-books bought from the Amazon store come with DRM, meaning the book can only be opened and read by whoever bought it, through a special app, after entering their Amazon login and password. But the protection can be stripped — and the book can even be converted to another format.

It’s simple. Download and install the official Amazon Kindle app. Sign in. Pull down your purchased books from the cloud.

Next, download and install an e-book manager called Calibre (free, cross-platform).

From here grab the archive — what you need from it is just the Calibre plugins. Each plugin is in its own archive. Go into Calibre Preferences → Plugins, click «Load plugin from file» and add all 5 plugins from the archive one by one.

That’s it. Go back into Kindle, open the settings and check where the content is stored (Content Folder); on macOS that’s ~/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content. Find the right .azw file — the name is usually unfriendly, but more importantly, next to it sits a matching .mbp file that’s used to open the book (the key, presumably). Drag book.azw into Calibre and voilà — no more DRM. Now you can happily convert the book into any format you like — EPUB, FB2 or PDF. The converted book you can use however you want.

The English-speaking author who originally described this method asks people to use it only for personal use with books they own — so am I.

Probably the most memorable moment from yesterday’s Google I/O keynote livestream. They delivered Sergey Brin a package in pretty spectacular style.

Went through the footage from the Est Est Est show on May 25 at Zoccolo. Got 5 full songs out of it. The Reflection video is above; below the cut are 4 new songs (Squirrel Island, Victory Day, Morgunchik, The Parfenovs) — some of which will be released this autumn on an EP, the rest in the spring on a new album.

Dimmu Borgir — a Norwegian band playing symphonic black metal. Hellish stuff :)

Another bootleg from an Est Est Est gig — the show at Zoccolo on 25.05.2012.
This was the band’s 30th show.

Tracklist:

01. Pasta
02. Olympiad
03. The Apartment One
04. Reflection
05. The House Painter Duck
06. Résumé
07. Spring
08. Palette
09. Squirrel Island
10. Fantasy (no trumpet)
11. Winter
12. Victory Day
13. Morgunchik
14. Lisbon
15. Autumn
16. Summer
17. Fantasy (with trumpet)
18. The Parfenovs

Download (mp3, 320 kbps, 263 mb): Narod | Rutracker