MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Kindle app for iPhone and iPod Touch in iTunes Store

ahintz · 03-05-2009, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by BookLoverToo

OK, so I have made the changes to the kindlepid.py script, obtained my serial number from Amazon, run the script, obtained a PID, downloaded a book to my iphone, retrieved it with iphone backup extractor, and tried MobiDeDrm on it. The script has run fine before (I have used it for other purchased books so I can read them on my Sony- with my mobipocket PID), but this time, MobiDeDrm gives an error :invalid encryption type:0.

Anyone have any ideas?

I have an iphone 3G if that makes any difference.
I have also tried lower case letters and upper case letter in the serial number, and neither resulting PID works.

Thanks in advance for any help. All I want to be able to do is to buy books from Amazon to read for myself! Why is it so hard?

Try opening the Kindle book in a text editor, and see if the first three characters are "TPZ". If they are, it means the book is a Topaz <sp?> book and can't be decrypted at present. While unfortunately you found one of them, from what I've read here and in other places, these are relatively rare.