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User11235 · 03-05-2025, 08:31 PM

A BIG thank you to everyone, from the people at Calibre to all the various plugin developers, and to all y'all here on MobileRead.com

I rarely use the Kindle store anymore -- I much prefer my Kobo and the Kobo store -- but sadly there are still a couple of authors/series I like that are only available on Kindle, so I have an old Kindle eInk device I bought cheap on eBay for specifically this reason

Anyway, just had to deal with one such book, and with the now-removed download option the only way I could figure out how to get it was with y'all's help... And for anyone else who needs this, I'm going to brain-dump what I did that finally worked here...

- I removed all the books off my Kindle (there were only a couple, I never use it except for this)

- I plugged my Kindle into my PC and deleted the two files with the ".calibre" extension ("metadata.calibre" and another one, I forget the filename now)

- I restarted the Kindle (I checked for updates, but there weren't any)

- I updated Calibre to the latest version

- I installed the "KFX Input" plugin, which I'd never had nor needed before... link: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=291290

- I updated my deDRM plugin (which already had my device's serial number in it) to the latest pre-release version... This part is key: You have to go to their GitHub releases page specifically, because the latest official release is 10.0.3, so the latest alpha version 10.0.9 is hidden everywhere except on the releases page, link: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases

I was then able to download the book on my Kindle, plug the Kindle into my PC, start Calibre, click on the Devices tab/button, and right-click the book and choose "Add book to library"... And then it was added successfully (though with the black+white cover) and unlocked and ready to convert to a real format (KEPUB, with the "KEPUB Output" plugin, link: https://github.com/jgoguen/calibre-kobo-driver/releases)

Maybe not all of those steps are strictly necessary, but it's what I ended-up doing in the half-hour or so I was trying to get my book imported and unlocked, and maybe something here will help someone else...

Cheers!

03-05-2025, 08:31 PM	#719
User11235 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 36 Join Date: Aug 2016 Device: Kobo AuraHD	A BIG thank you to everyone, from the people at Calibre to all the various plugin developers, and to all y'all here on MobileRead.com I rarely use the Kindle store anymore -- I much prefer my Kobo and the Kobo store -- but sadly there are still a couple of authors/series I like that are only available on Kindle, so I have an old Kindle eInk device I bought cheap on eBay for specifically this reason Anyway, just had to deal with one such book, and with the now-removed download option the only way I could figure out how to get it was with y'all's help... And for anyone else who needs this, I'm going to brain-dump what I did that finally worked here... - I removed all the books off my Kindle (there were only a couple, I never use it except for this) - I plugged my Kindle into my PC and deleted the two files with the ".calibre" extension ("metadata.calibre" and another one, I forget the filename now) - I restarted the Kindle (I checked for updates, but there weren't any) - I updated Calibre to the latest version - I installed the "KFX Input" plugin, which I'd never had nor needed before... link: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=291290 - I updated my deDRM plugin (which already had my device's serial number in it) to the latest pre-release version... This part is key: You have to go to their GitHub releases page specifically, because the latest official release is 10.0.3, so the latest alpha version 10.0.9 is hidden everywhere except on the releases page, link: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases I was then able to download the book on my Kindle, plug the Kindle into my PC, start Calibre, click on the Devices tab/button, and right-click the book and choose "Add book to library"... And then it was added successfully (though with the black+white cover) and unlocked and ready to convert to a real format (KEPUB, with the "KEPUB Output" plugin, link: https://github.com/jgoguen/calibre-kobo-driver/releases) Maybe not all of those steps are strictly necessary, but it's what I ended-up doing in the half-hour or so I was trying to get my book imported and unlocked, and maybe something here will help someone else... Cheers!