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Originally Posted by shalym
While you may not be able to download a DRM free book directly from Amazon's website without having a Kindle, you should be able to load the DRM free .KFX book that comes from Kindle for PC onto any Kindle, or use Calibre to convert it to another format. (as long as the book is DRM free from the publisher)
Note that I haven't tested this since the KFX format was first introduced, but it worked that way back then.
Shari
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You must have had the DRM removal plugin installed for that to work. Books delivered from Amazon in KFX format always have DRM. Conversion of KFX books with DRM was possible at one time in calibre, but it no longer works because Amazon keeps changing the DRM scheme in use.
If the publisher has requested that DRM not be used then Amazon uses a generic key for the DRM so it is not tied to a specific device or account. That means that it is generally possible to move a KFX book from one Kindle to another and have it work if the publisher requested DRM-free.
Interestingly, personal documents sent to a Kindle Scribe arrive in KFX format without DRM. That shows that Amazon is able to produce DRM-free KFX. They just have chosen not to do so, instead interpreting DRM-free as meaning you are free to move the book from one device to another as long as they are both Kindles.