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tittle65 · 05-05-2013, 08:01 PM

I hope it's okay to revisit this, but after ignoring my Kindle books out of frustration for a number of months I thought I'd look at this issue again. Latest version of calibre on my Linux install, etc.

I'm very confused about how to get Calibre to find the Kindle books (purchased and downloaded from Amazon) on my Nexus7. I have been looking through the books using the Kindle app on Nexus7, so I'm fairly sure they're actually downloaded and present on my N7. They seem to be in the sdcard Android/data/com.amazon.kindle/files/ in a big hot mess of apnx|embp|prc files.

I've got Calibre connected to the N7, and the device configuration includes the Android directory as one of the ones to scan for books. (And I have no trouble sending and retrieving books already in my Calibre library to N7 and back.)

But it's not finding these purchased Kindle books. If I understand your remarks above, it *should* find them, DRM or no. Or does the DRM prevent the linux Calibre program from even seeing these books?

(I am NOT asking about removal of DRM in any way shape or form, just to make that part clear.)

05-05-2013, 08:01 PM	#4
tittle65 Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: none	linux/kindle/nexus7 reprise I hope it's okay to revisit this, but after ignoring my Kindle books out of frustration for a number of months I thought I'd look at this issue again. Latest version of calibre on my Linux install, etc. I'm very confused about how to get Calibre to find the Kindle books (purchased and downloaded from Amazon) on my Nexus7. I have been looking through the books using the Kindle app on Nexus7, so I'm fairly sure they're actually downloaded and present on my N7. They seem to be in the sdcard Android/data/com.amazon.kindle/files/ in a big hot mess of apnx\|embp\|prc files. I've got Calibre connected to the N7, and the device configuration includes the Android directory as one of the ones to scan for books. (And I have no trouble sending and retrieving books already in my Calibre library to N7 and back.) But it's not finding these purchased Kindle books. If I understand your remarks above, it should find them, DRM or no. Or does the DRM prevent the linux Calibre program from even seeing these books? (I am NOT asking about removal of DRM in any way shape or form, just to make that part clear.)