Thread: Dealing with Kindle for PC/Mac 1.19 and KFX in calibre
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Old 03-20-2022, 01:07 AM   #1410
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Originally Posted by eredr View Post
Thanks so much for clarifying all that JHowell. I reinstalled version 1.17 of Kindle for PC from my computer, followed all your instructions for preventing updates, including running your "disable k4pc download.bat" batch file - It said "The directory name is invalid" but also "Kindle for PC downloads are now disabled" so hopefully it worked - hopefully that will prevent an automatic update like I had a few days ago from happening again. So since doing that my Kindle for PC seems to have reverted to 1.17 and to be staying like that, and I'm no longer getting the KFX error. Plus I was able to successfully register Kindle for PC 1.17 again under my amazon account. However now I'm getting a DRM error in Calibre. So I figure I'm almost there hopefully

Next I ran the KFX begone file at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...79#post4021279 it said new update available 1.30 and I said skip for now (I should have said skip forever or whatever the other option was but hopefully next time it will allow me to select that) and then the C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe thing (can you tell I’m not a technical person?!) just keeps running with the same message repeatedly “ERROR The system was unable to find the specified registry key value. Waiting for – seconds, press a key to continue…” I press a key and it keeps just saying the same message repeatedly. So I closed that little window after letting it run for several minutes. Perhaps I didn't need to do this step 2A from your post given after I ran your "disable k4pc download.bat" batch file I was no longer getting the KFX error in Calibre. Perhaps method 1 worked for me

But I was trying to work out how to get rid of the DRM error as I am just getting DRM message in Calibre – and the Calibre DRM message has a hyperlink to this post.

Sorry I'm confused about what I need to do now to get rid of the DRM - it seems your post is about KFX, not DRM? I never had to worry about any of this before when I had always had Kindle for PC 1.17 until a few days ago. Somehow despite having successfully reverted back to Kindle for PC 1.17 and having deleted the new book from the folder and then refreshing and re-downloading it, it is again downloading it with the DRM, and so it won't go onto Calibre

I was looking forward to reading my new book! I just want to be able to buy books from Amazon for my kobo - I would have thought Amazon would want this too?
Kindle for PC 1.17 does not use or support that registry setting since it is incapable of dealing with KFX files. Since v1.17 simply uses the Kindle storage directory and does not place books in subdirectories within it, if you are seeing books in a subdirectory of your My Kindle Content directory, this suggests that you have a later version of K4PC installed. If it is 1.35, the kfx_begone batch file no longer works.

I still haven't received the 1.35 update so can't offer much on what the changes are.
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