Thread: Transfer from Several Kindle PC accounts
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Old 02-18-2011, 01:34 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by stargazir View Post
If I had K4PC set up with one Amazon account, and my actual Kindle set up with a different Amazon account can I look at books from both accounts in Calibre?

I have tried to add the K4PC books to my Calibre library however i'm getting the DRM message even though this shouldn't be a problem for my PC. The posts here are making me think that I can cut-and-paste the books from the Kindle folder to the Calibre folder and they will work. Is this right?
Using the same Calibre library to store DRM'd ebooks for multiple ebook readers at the same time would be a very confusing task indeed.

The way Kindle DRM is set up, you can't move DRM'd files directly from one Kindle-related device to another. This also has the effect of stopping you from reading said ebooks on Calibre's internal mobi reader or on Kindle Previewer.

The best solutions I can think of in this case is to have Calibre set up more than one library- one for each device; OR create a custom column field in Callibre wherein you indicate which device certain ebooks are for; OR you break the DRM on your ebooks.



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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
and it gets worse, AFAIK you can google how to de-drm books sent to kindle, but not books sent to K4PC, as that uses harder-to-break DRM
mmm... not necessarily. I haven't tried it lately for K4PC, but I think the one tool I use can break K4PC and standard Kindle ebook DRM, as well as Topaz files; and I visited Alf.
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