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Old 06-22-2016, 10:06 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by NullNix View Post
The Apprentice Alf stuff is a Calibre extension written in Python, thus cross-platform. So "all" you'd need would be Calibre on the Kindle. The latest Calibre is Qt5-based. Just the shared libraries for Qt 5.6.x weigh in at 1.5GiB on x86-64... so it's not going to happen unless someone writes a no-Calibre version, which would mean reimplemting all the ebook-understanding stuff that Calibre does so Alf doesn't have do. (Even the parts of Qt 5 that Calibre actually uses weigh in at hundreds of megabytes, and Calibre has other dependencies too.)
Thanks for the information. I was not aware that AA and Calibre were cross-platform. I restored my previously-deleted post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...75#post3338675

I got clarification from moderator WT Sharpe that there has been a policy change and we are apparently allowed to link to the Apprentice Alf website now (but we still cannot discuss specific details about DRM removal). However, it seems safer to me to quote a moderator post that contains this link, as I did in the post linked above.

The only reason Apprentice Alf is brought up here at all is that it allows a book owner to move his books between his kindles without requiring the internet bandwidth to do this via amazon downloads to the new device. DRM removal is only a required side-effect of that procedure, unless you go through amazon and burn the required bandwidth to do so.

And regarding Calibre being too big to run in a kindle, it seems a bit bigger than it needs to be, considering that after upgrading my first laptop computer from 1MB to 2MB (by soldering in a RAM chip), I was able to boot it into Windows 3, then run Microsoft Word on top of that (with the help of a memory compression driver). If an entire GUI Operating System *and* word processor can run usefully in 2MB, why can't a book converter fit in a kindle with many hundreds of times as much memory (plus flash disk storage that can be used as virtual memory)? Especially considering that there are useful programs that are less than 1KB in size.

Anyway, back to topic, the practical choices are use the Mac and Apprentice Alf (which also needs bandwidth to download and install all the tools and dependencies it requires), or to travel to a location that has affordable (or free) WiFi. There is also a fourth way (letting the new kindle download the books using the old 3G kindle via 3G), but that way is not allowed to be discussed in detail here (corkscrew tethering).
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