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Originally Posted by artnking
I have an older Paperwhite. I can download a newly purchased book from Amazon, and even find a file with the book name that ends in .kfx
How do I get this book over to my windows computer where I can run Calibre with DeDRM to get rid of DRM?
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I think the best way is not to download to your Paperwhite first off, but to download to your PC and then transfer to the Paperwhite via Calibre & sideloading.
- I have a Kindle that I keep 100% on Airplane mode. I use Kindle for PC (version 1.39.2 - the older version number is important) with my Windows 10 PC. Keep a backup copy of that version just in case, and within the options, make sure that Updating is turned off.
- In K4PC, I sync my library, and right click to download a book to my PC. Within K4PC there's an option to specify which folder the book will download to.
- Then I open up Calibre and under Add Book, I navigate to that folder, and click on the book folder inside. There are two files in the book folder; I add the .azw file to Calibre. This comes into Calibre as a .kfx file
- Assuming you have the latest DeDRM plugin, you can then convert the .kfx to an epub/mobi.
- I plug my Kindle into my PC and within Calibre I use Send to Device to send the book to the Kindle.
This sounds like a lot of steps, but in practice it takes less than a minute to do that.