How to download a loanable book from archive.org?

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1. Download and install Adobe Digital Editions

2. Download and install ePUBee DRM Removal 3.1.5.2

3. Loan the book for 14 days if you can and go immediately to
step 4.

If you can only loan the book for one hour, you will need to
forge the download link manually. First you will need a
working PDF download link template. You can obtain such by
borrowing any book for 14 days and by right clicking on the
ENCRYPTED ADOBE PDF in the DOWNLOAD OPTIONS section, and
choosing by Copy Link Address. Alternatively you can use the
following template which should hopefully work for some
time:

https://archive.org/services/loans/loan/?action=media_url&identifier=BOOKID&format=pdf&redirect=1

Once in the clipboard, open a new browser tab and paste it
into the address bar. Now you need to replace the BOOKID
part of the address with the ID of the book you've borrowed
for one hour. You can take the ID of the book by looking on
its address:

https://archive.org/details/BOOKID

Once replaced in the address, hit Enter to download the
URLLink.acsm file and go to step 5.

4. Click on ENCRYPTED ADOBE PDF in the DOWNLOAD OPTIONS section
and download the URLLink.acsm file.

5. Open Adobe Digital Editions

6. Drag and drop the downloaded URLLink.acsm file onto Adobe
Digital Editions' window. Alternatively you can go to the
File menu, Add to Library (Ctrl+O), change file type from
PDF and EPUB to ACSM and open the dwnloaded file. Once
opened, you should see a Downloading Content popup window
with a bar.

7. Once downloaded, check the book in Adobe Digital Editions

8. Open ePUBee DRM Removal. It should offer you to Load Default
eBooks from Adobe Digital Editions. Accept that. It will
decrypt all of your books there.

9. Now right click to any of the books and choose to Explore
decrypted folder. There is your lovely book.

10. You can return the borrowed book now in archive.org.

Congratulations!