I have tried to get to the level where I could read books bought on kinxle into calibre on my debian GNU/linux laptop.
So far I have found that
1. kindle 1.24 didn't install under wine
2. kindle 1.39 installed perfectly in wine and I could download and read books, non-DRMed KFX files imports nicely into calibre (I have a Baen book I bought on kindle because I didn't spot it was from Baen), but DRM'd KFX files fails to convert
3. kindle 1.26 also installed fine under wine and I have done the changes to make it not download KFX, but it still downloads KFX files (at least that's the way they lookks to calibre) and DRM'd KFX files have the same behaviour as with the kindle 1.39 files. Anyway... with the january 2023 policy change from amazon this would be useless for new books anyway...
So... I was looking into buying an older eInk kindle to get a download link.
But the oldest I can find is Paperwhite 4 (2018 vintage) and KFX support came with Paperwhite 3, so there is no point in buying that?
So... I either will have to get an alternative purchase route for ebooks... or go back to paper after 10 years on eInk...
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