Sweet Princess and Cool-b will stop publishing

[yuuri69]

In the end the magazines could not continue and they'll stop releasing any new volumes. Idk for how long they'll keep their digital stuff up too, or for how long people will be able to buy their digital magazines. Maybe we should start preserving them.

https://www.dlsite.com/bl-pro/circl...]/Alingual/page/2/maker_id/BG01279.html#works

https://www.dlsite.com/girls-pro/circle/profile/=/maker_id/BG01279.html

I can't buy from dlsite, if you know any other site that has them, pls share a link so I can try buying some and contributing.

 

[yuuri69]

I have bought some on dlsite before! Do you know a program where I can rip them automatically and not in bad quality?

 

[baybridge]

You can consider Kobo (Rakuten Books Japan) or Amazon Japan - both are e-book stores but best to double-check the method to remove DRM.

https://books.rakuten.co.jp/search?sitem=cool-b&g=101

https://www.amazon.co.jp/s?k=sweet+princess+雑誌&crid=3BYWNGSGCU53D&sprefix=Sweet+Princess,aps,277

 

[otome!]

I do have all of the sweetprincess issues available on kindle (so like vol 24-44 or 45? anyway the last issue)

i can share them but i'll have to censor the r18 parts like i did with sweetsweetprincess, so if you want to get the uncensored ver. you'll need to get them yourselvessorry about that. also i will prioritize mangas and fanbooks/artbooks so it might take me a while to upload them (at least a few months that's for sure)

cuz yeah they announced a while back they'd stop publishing but they started a new magazine called sweetsweetprincess which is the equivalent of sweetprincess (idk if there's an equivalent to cool-B tho)

i however do not own any cool b magazine so i cant help with that but someone on AS shared anonymously as MIRROR links quite a lot of issues (thanks^^) but not all of them and no special issue, so feel free to get the others to preserve them!

also for removing DRM sorry i dont know hos to do it, i personally gave up and i just take screenshots in a particular way so that i can get the best quality possible... You might want to ask on scanlation related communities since they're used to how to do this stuff or we wouldnt have all the manga scans we have nowadays!
the most famous drm removing .ethod is to use deDRM (on github) and add the plugin to calibre (there are dozens of tutorial about how to do it), but this doesnt seem to work on recent books because they updated the DRM encryption method or something like that it might still work with kobo idk but for kindle although i did not test this method on ALL the books i have it seems like it doesnt work anymore

 

[baybridge]

It used to be easier with the method you mentioned; but if anyone has a Kindle reader and an account on Amazon Japan - that is another way to try besides getting screenshots.