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Originally Posted by wallcraft

I suggest trying argecho to see what is being passed to the script. See "invalid PID checksum" when using mobidedrm, even though it IS valid. .

thnks -- tried this, and the asterisk-containing kindle pid is correctly passed. So, I'm guessing it is the more fundamental "error: invalid file format" issue, which seems to suggest that for at least some amazon azw files, one needs to do something like f^-1(kindlefix.py) to get it to a mobi file (that can then be mobidedrm'd if necessary).

I should add that in addition to trying mobi2html on it, i also tried opening it using mobipocket reader (done to confirm that the azw file was drm'd).