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Originally Posted by Sirtel
You can buy a cheap, used eink Kindle and register it to your Amazon account; then you'll be able to use the "Download & Transfer" option in your Content & Devices to download your purchases to your computer and deDRM them. No KFX involved in that.
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Sirtel, to update you. I remembered that I had an old e-ink Kindle-reader buried away in the cold of the garage, so I dug it out, charged it up, was amazed it still worked, and then connected it to my Amazon account and, yes, the book downloaded. It downloaded as an AZW3 file, perhaps because the book was published quite recently, and when I tried to convert it to epub using Calibre, Calibre gave me the same DRM "can't convert" message that I received yesterday when trying to convert the KFX file.
Perhaps Kindle books published prior to 2023 are still in a format which Calibre can convert to epub. However, I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon does not slowly go through its back-catalogue and upgrade all its Kindle books to the new DRM standard, which Calibre can't convert.
It's all so very disappointing, because I love reading books in epub format on Moonreader Pro. However, there is a ray of hope, because another member has said that recently published books purchased from Kobo can still be converted so as to be usable with one's own preferred e-reader.