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Originally Posted by easterncoyote
I have been using Kindles for quite some time, but just purchased the Kobo Aura on a whim, and I love it. Can I convert the Kindle books I own to be able to read them on the Kobo? They are all purchased books, with DRM, I assume. Thank you.
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Hey, I've been on vacation, but others have answered your question. To give a little more detail, I run Windows 10. On it, I use Kindle for PC.
1: Download Kindle for PC. This will let you download all of your Kindle books to your PC.
I use an older version, 1.17.1 available
here. I use the older version, because I prefer not dealing with .KFX format. You may want to go in to options and tell the program not to auto-update.
Once installed, the downloaded books will be in the Documents/My Kindle Content folder. They will have DRM at this point. Do NOT move the books into Calibre until you finish the rest of the steps.
2: Install Calibre, available
here.
3: Install Apprentice Alf's DeDRM plug-in for Calibre. I don't know if I can link to it, but a simple Google search should find it.
4: Once you have the Alf plug-ins installed in Calibre, you should be able to drag the book files from the Documents/My Kindle Content folder to Calibre. If you use the old version of Kindle for PC I linked to, these will be the files in the .azw format. (There will be other files in the folder as well. You don't need to touch these.)
It's a simple drag and drop. Nothing to muss with. The DeDRM plug in works automagically as the books are added to Calibre.
Setting this up takes maybe fifteen minutes. After that, whenever I buy books from Amazon, I fire up Kindle for PC, download the new books and drop them in Calibre. It takes three to five minutes, if that.