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Originally Posted by darryl
To me Amazon may as well be a monopoly now, though at least for the moment a benign one. Just about all of the others make you jump through hoops to get a liberated file you can read on the device you want. Amazon files can be downloaded and imported straight into Calibre, with or without Apprentice Alf, as you choose. Kobo and Google both require an intervening step using ADE [...]
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Is there a way of getting a direct download from Amazon? Right now, my workflow is:
Kobo (non-kepub-only, obv, which is most of them): Download via ADE, pull file out (easy because it usually is named transparently), deDRM (either via standalone app or third-party Calibre plugin), Calibre.
Kindle: Download via Kindle for Mac, pull file out (somewhat less easy because it has a nonsense filename; find hidden Kindle for Mac folder and sort by date, then find file), deDRM (either via standalone app or third-party Calibre plugin), Calibre.
These seem pretty similar to me. I continue to use an old version of ADE (1.7.2).
Kepub: download via Kobo app, usu Obok third-party Calibre plugin, done.