Thread: Dealing with Kindle for PC/Mac 1.19 and KFX in calibre
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Old 01-05-2023, 02:11 PM   #1618
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Originally Posted by Rob C View Post
I have the same issue as Jacques Q in post 1600. I've been using calibre and Kindle for PC version 1.17 (i.e., the last version before DRM was supported) for several years now, and I've always been able to buy Kindle books from Amazon, load them up into Kindle for PC, use the download function to download an azw file of the book that does not have any DRM, and then load that azw file into calibre. Today when trying that, I get an error trying to download the book in Kindle for PC, saying I needed to download the latest version of Kindle for PC. I did that, but the downloaded azw file has DRM and will not load into calibre. I went back to Kindle for PC version 1.17, and got the same garbage all over again. So it appears Amazon may have now decided to close up this loophole regarding DRM books. I'm not sure where to go from here. Anybody have any ideas?
It's the way Amazon is going with KindleForPC/MAC. You will need a physical Kindle registered to your account to be able to download new Kindle eBooks. Either that or you start buying ePub and convert.
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