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Old 08-13-2012, 10:44 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
I had let my Amazon books pile up for a couple of months and so today decided to strip and convert. I've done this through Calibre ever since the plug-in became available--but today none of the books would convert; I got error messages telling me the books were all locked with DRM. So I updated to the latest version of Calibre, updated to the 5.1 tools and added the plug-in--and STILL got error messages.

All the books had azw extensions. I changed them to mobi extensions, solely on a whim because I couldn't think of anything else to do, and then, lo and behold, Calibre converted them to epub. A few of them turned out to be topaz, but they too converted when they had the mobi extension.

This doesn't make any sense to me, especially since I didn't see anything about a problem with azw files in the readme files. Do I really need to change file extensions now? Weird.
In Calibre go to Preferences\Behaviors and make sure AZW and AZW3 has a check mark by it and then click 'apply'.

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