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Old 03-10-2016, 10:59 PM   #526
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Pick up a used Kindle Keyboard, here's one available right now for just $18.75 and download your purchases via USB for the Kindle Keyboard. Then copy the downloaded file to Calibre. It's really not a lot of work at all.

Another source for relatively inexpensive used Kindles is the Goodwill Industries auction site. Most, if not all, of the various Goodwill agencies ship only to US addresses, so this isn't a universal solution. Also, they sell "As IS" with no returns, and shipping & handling costs are never refunded, so read the descriptions carefully. Kindles are the most popular ereaders, so bidding gets more active as each listing ends.

Still, I've bought a few ereaders (and MP3 players) here and I haven't been disappointed. In fact, I just got my first Kindle there a couple of weeks ago.
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Old 03-10-2016, 11:06 PM   #527
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When I got my current PC with Windows 8 on it I DL the K4 PC for Win 8 & Alf didnt work. Some one on another site Not MR told me to DL Windows 7 Kindle. I Not had any problems since.... 3+ years & Counting
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Old 03-11-2016, 02:46 AM   #528
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Apprentice Harper posted on Alf:
'I can confirm that new installations of Kindle for PC from about 8th March onwards do not work with the current tools. I think I have the beginnings of a solution for Kindle for PC, and I hope to post something early next week. I have opened an issue at my GitHub repository, so if anyone has any insights on the problem that they’d like to share, that’s the place to post them. Thanks.‬'


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Old 03-11-2016, 02:55 AM   #529
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Not sure if this helps or not, the Mac App Store in Canada has K4Mac 1.12 and the Amazon.com website still seems to distribute K4Mac 1.13. In fact I had to do a special search to even find a link to K4Mac 1.15 on the Amazon website.
Thanks Kevin. I won't elaborate here because it probably crosses a line. But from my limited experimentation it appears that Amazon prepared for this, and that all non-expired versions, whether sourced from Amazon directly or indirectly, support the new key encryption, at least for Kindle4PC.
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Old 03-11-2016, 03:30 AM   #530
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Old 03-11-2016, 05:03 AM   #531
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Apprentice Harper posted on Alf:
'I can confirm that new installations of Kindle for PC from about 8th March onwards do not work with the current tools. I think I have the beginnings of a solution for Kindle for PC, and I hope to post something early next week. I have opened an issue at my GitHub repository, so if anyone has any insights on the problem that they’d like to share, that’s the place to post them. Thanks.‬'
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I think I have found a solution for Kindle for PC. A test solution should be available early in the week of 14th March. Kindle for Mac seems trickier.

Alas, I'm on a Mac!
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Old 03-11-2016, 06:26 AM   #532
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I feel somewhat the same. Although I do still have a Kindle and an old iOS device from which I can liberate my Amazon books. My Kobo purchases have certainly gone way down.
Is it possible to "liberate" books from an iOS device? No specifics, of course. Just curious.
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Old 03-11-2016, 06:49 AM   #533
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Is it possible to "liberate" books from an iOS device? No specifics, of course. Just curious.
Not in general. Only for older iOS and older Kindle software, where the PID was derivable from the iOS UUID.
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Old 03-11-2016, 08:27 AM   #534
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I was just fishing around the K4PC data directory (on my Win 8.1 computer, "C:\Users\Difflugia\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindl e") and I found an old installer. The one named "installer.exe" was the current version, but there is also an "updates" directory with a version 1.11 installer left from an old update.
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Old 03-11-2016, 12:34 PM   #535
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I was just fishing around the K4PC data directory (on my Win 8.1 computer, "C:\Users\Difflugia\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindl e") and I found an old installer. The one named "installer.exe" was the current version, but there is also an "updates" directory with a version 1.11 installer left from an old update.
Or you could download directly from Amazon. The posted download link (http://amzn.com/kindlepcdownload) is a redirect to the latest version but the old versions are still hosted.

winetricks and chocolatey are both good sources for versioned download links.
The problem is Amazon expires old versions from connecting and downloading books.
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Old 03-11-2016, 11:39 PM   #536
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Just a thought .... Could those of you who currently have the problem, re not being able to clean amazon files, please volunteer to test Apprentice Harper's 'fix' when he initially releases it. Perhaps you could post your intention on Alf, or else on his github site.

As apprentice Harper doesn't have a mac it would be especially convenient if the mac version were 'road tested' prior to general release.

One could also PM ApprenticeHarper on MR and alert him to your willingness to be a tester as well.

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You could install Windows and forgo OS X.
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My K4PC installation auto-updated to v1.14.1 this morning, and I can report that, following the upgrade, everything still works as expected. Upgrading an existing installation is, therefore, safe. This is only an issue affecting a new installation.
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Old 03-12-2016, 10:46 AM   #539
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My K4PC installation auto-updated to v1.14.1 this morning, and I can report that, following the upgrade, everything still works as expected. Upgrading an existing installation is, therefore, safe. This is only an issue affecting a new installation.
That is interesting I have K4PC v1.15 that updated on 2/29/2016
And yes everything still works great.
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That is interesting I have K4PC v1.15 that updated on 2/29/2016
And yes everything still works great.
For what it is worth I think pre-existing installations of the tools already have the unencrypted key for the installed Kindle4PC, which iit gets when first installed and does not change with an update (at least not currently). However, Amazon has changed the encryption used for the key. So the tools will be unable to decrypt the key from a new installation. If this is correct, then problems may also occur if you uninstall and later reinstall Kindle4PC or Calibre and/or tools if the configuration files are not preserved.
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