Thread: Dealing with Kindle ebooks in calibre
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Old 02-12-2025, 03:05 PM   #512
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Originally Posted by manicotti View Post
Hello, is there no way to to download ebooks from Amazon if you use Linux? I just bought my first book, and I want to load it into Calibre. The only e-reader I own is an old Nook. Really sad that consumers constantly get pushed around like this.
You need an old Kindle eink.
The K3 is oldest that is workable, and has azw3 files . That's FW 3.4.3
Technically the DXG is slightly younger, but it's really an updated DX, so won't get other than Mobi. FW 2.5.8. It can't connect to Amazon now anyway.

All later Kindles are currenlty 5.x FW
A PW3 (Paperwhite 7th) or Oasis2 (Kindle 9th) both seem to be 5.16.x so may be OK with KFX. Certainly 5.16.2.1.1 works and may be last ever on a PW3.

Newer Kindles get updates, currently 5.17.x, so may fail to deDRM.

See here
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...MQC26VQQMM8XSW
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