Dealing with Kindle ebooks in calibre

[Sats]

Originally Posted by odamizu

Also, does anyone know if Kindle for Android is in any way workable nowadays as a way to obtain calibre-friendly books? Or is it dead and I should update the first post accordingly?

Let me check... Ok, I have Kindle 8.144.1.0 installed on my rooted WSA, and my "method" still works, if you can call that "working". One book at a time, and you have to manually form keyfile for the plugin, but I guess? I am pretty sure that only one person ever used it though (I made it but I don't use it aside from testing a bit). It is a pain. (As noted above, keys are often the same for Android and PC and Mac, at least, for the same book).

[odamizu]

Originally Posted by Sats

Let me check... Ok, I have Kindle 8.144.1.0 installed on my rooted WSA, and my "method" still works ...

Okay, thanks for checking! I will update the first post.

[quiller1024]

Thank you IKMILLER…. I did indeed find my downloaded kindle book in my documents.

My new question is will calibre access books using 11th gen kindle say the 6.8 inch 8gb kindle white. I have decided it is too risky buying 10th gen as I don’t trust eBay much anymore

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by quiller1024

Thank you IKMILLER…. I did indeed find my downloaded kindle book in my documents.

My new question is will calibre access books using 11th gen kindle say the 6.8 inch 8gb kindle white. I have decided it is too risky buying 10th gen as I don’t trust eBay much anymore

No. The DRM for the newest firmware has not been broken.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Rellwood

The way to prevent that from happening is to turn the wifi on - download the book, and then immediately plug it into your computer - hunt down the as of yet to run installer that came with the book - and delete it, remove the book, the Kindle and return to wifi.

AFAIK the Kindle needs to be turned off for it to update, a restart or something.
I know that the older devices like the 5th Gen are so difficult that you have to download from Content & Devices, then wait forever, the restart the Kindle. I believe that the restart is going to be the way they get those ones to sneakily update when they are always on airplane mode and only turned on to download a book.

It isn't intentional, but the fact that the Kindles are so old that it's hard to download the formats, but its going to be a nice side effect that allows those sneak updates.

While the Kindle Touch is old, it works very well to download. I just go to Amazon, specify which eBooks I want to download, go to the Kindle Touch, turn on WiFi and the eBooks download.

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I have a PW3 that has firmware 5.16.2.1.1 on it. It's been in airplane mode since sometime between the announcement of D&T going away and D&T going away. If I turn on WiFi and Amazon sends it's parasites to infect my PW3, will I lose any functionality other the not being able to remove the DRM from downloaded eBooks?

No. My Oasis 2 with that firmware is otherwise completely the same.

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by Rellwood

The way to prevent that from happening is to turn the wifi on - download the book, and then immediately plug it into your computer - hunt down the as of yet to run installer that came with the book - and delete it, remove the book, the Kindle and return to wifi.

AFAIK the Kindle needs to be turned off for it to update, a restart or something.
I know that the older devices like the 5th Gen are so difficult that you have to download from Content & Devices, then wait forever, the restart the Kindle. I believe that the restart is going to be the way they get those ones to sneakily update when they are always on airplane mode and only turned on to download a book.

It isn't intentional, but the fact that the Kindles are so old that it's hard to download the formats, but its going to be a nice side effect that allows those sneak updates.

First I heard about someone being unable to DeDRM a book from a Paperwhite 3 (7th gen), I turned on my Oasis 2 which runs the same firmware to check. I only had wifi on long enough to download a book. No restart. New book couldn't be DeDRMed. Previous downloads still fine.

My Kindle Touch (5th gen) has had no issues downloading books. I don't even push the book via Content & Devices. Just wake it up, turn on wifi, and download from there. No need to restart.