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Karin Spaink · 03-30-2011, 06:21 PM

In January, I bought a Kindle and a few books on Amazon. Using Calibre and its plug-ins it was a piece of cake to import them into my Calibre library, dump the DRM in the process and convert them to .mobi. The reason for doing so: I want to continue to be able to read the books that I've bought, even if in the future I move to another e-reader...

Tonight, I bought a few more books at Amazon. However, after importing them into Calibre, they still show up as .azw and they won't convert into .mobi: I get an error message saying that they're DRM protected.

What gives? Are there *different* kinds of DRM at Amazon, some of which can be stripped and some of which can't? I've tried the MobiDeDrm Python script, but somehow that doesn't work at all - it won't even unlock the books that I bought earlier while Calibre can still unlock those.

I'd be happy with some tips...

regards,
KS

03-30-2011, 06:21 PM	#1
Karin Spaink Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Netherlands Device: Kindle	Importing and converting .azw to .mobi In January, I bought a Kindle and a few books on Amazon. Using Calibre and its plug-ins it was a piece of cake to import them into my Calibre library, dump the DRM in the process and convert them to .mobi. The reason for doing so: I want to continue to be able to read the books that I've bought, even if in the future I move to another e-reader... Tonight, I bought a few more books at Amazon. However, after importing them into Calibre, they still show up as .azw and they won't convert into .mobi: I get an error message saying that they're DRM protected. What gives? Are there different kinds of DRM at Amazon, some of which can be stripped and some of which can't? I've tried the MobiDeDrm Python script, but somehow that doesn't work at all - it won't even unlock the books that I bought earlier while Calibre can still unlock those. I'd be happy with some tips... regards, KS Last edited by Karin Spaink; 03-30-2011 at 06:32 PM.