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Old 02-11-2024, 01:45 PM   #1
Eddy
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Moonreader Pro - can no longer read Kindle books

I LOVE and ADORE the "Moonreader Pro" app, because it allows me to customised the appearance of the text in epubs in so many wonderful ways.

For the last 20 years I have bought Kindle books from Amazon, converted them to epubs in the wonderful Calibre, and then enjoyed reading them using Moonreader Pro on my phone.

But yesterday I downloaded a recently published Kindle book from Amazon and found that Calibre in "Windows 7" cannot convert it. Today I used a "Windows 10" computer with the most up-to-date version of Calibre on it, but Calibre could not convert it!

A member of this forum suggested that if I downloaded the book to an old Kindle reader, the Kindle book would be downloaded in the old format, and so I could then convert it in the normal way in Calibre. So I dug out an old Kindle reader and, yes, the book downloaded to it in AZW3 format. But when I tried to convert the AZW3 file in Calibre 3.44 I received exactly the same "can't convert because of DRM" message that the KFX file received yesterday.

So last night I tried to read the new book in the Kindle app on my phone. The reading experience was poor compared to the reading experience provided by Moonreader Pro. If there were a skin for the Kindle app maybe I could improve things, but I couldn't find any evidence of such a skin for the Kindle app.

So is this the end of the road for us Moonreader Pro readers? From now on can we only read old public domain epubs, i.e. no new publications?
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