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Quick Guide to Manga Piracy

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-Requirements & Explanation

Software You will need

Hakuneko Kindle Comic Converter Calibre

Hakuneko is a piece of software that is able scrape images from "legal" manga hosting websites that are riddled with ads

Kindle Comic Converter is for taking all our imgs from Hakuneko and converting them to other file formats, pdf, cpz and epub*.

*epub's are similar to pdf as in they both contain images in one file but epub's are a lot more flexible, you are able to adjust things like font-size and color

Calibre is used to convert our epubs and transfer them onto a kindle

-Hakuneko

After downloading and installing both software. First open Hakuneko and click the Connector tab to select the website to scrape from

When picking a website there are plenty to pick from, some offer hentai if that’s what you're into but i have used "MangaLife" since it's had the best results than any other

On first load of the connector you will need to click the green reload button to fetch all the mangas, after that it should be loaded into cache next time you load this specific connector, depending on your internet speed this make take awhile...

We are nearing the end now, once the connector has snagged all the mangas you can search up the one you want, for the sake of example I am searching up "My Senpai is Annoying" but the process wont differ from other books

Then you can download the chapters/volumes

Ignore the folder icon this is only because I have these volumes on my drive

To download a volume click the cloud icon, again this may take awhile, once downloaded, Hekuneko will create a folder called "Mangas" in your Documents Folder. In side of "Mangas" there will be sub-folders named after the manga you downloaded, and again inside that folder there will be a sub-folder with your volumes/chapters

At this point you don't need to follow the rest of this but you can if you want to read with ease

-Kindle Comic Converter

This is the easy part of the guide, first open the software and click "Add Directory"

And select the volume folder

Once done that step there is 2 settings we want to configure, click the box that says "Mobi/Azw3" and switch that to "EPUB". Then tick the box that is labeled "Color mode"

Now we can click "Convert". now you're done, the epub has been created.

You can do 2 things with this file, put it on to an actual kindle or download an app on an android phone called ReadEra There is possibly a way to read epub's on apple devices but I haven't looked into is

-Transferring to a kindle

Getting books onto the kindle is really simple, Calibre converts the Epub's into .mobi(File Format of offical kindle books from the store).

Download the software and install it, once installed and launched, click next to reach this screen.

Select the version of the kindle you own, in my case I have the 2022 Kindle so I select the highlighted option. On the next screen you may play around with it if you want, it just allows you to email yourself the books and having it appear on the device but its really not required.

Welcome to the software, for this guide there is only two options you can pay attention to, Add books & Send to device (only appears when kindle is plugged in).

First add you're book with the Add books button.

Next click the Send to device button, if it askes to convert the books go ahead and click Yes.

You must wait for the Jobs wheel to be finished before you can eject the device.

And there you go. It should be on the kindle.

-Problems

When reading your books for some reason the device will replace pages with blank pages but can be fixed by just going one page a head then back.

That's about it .