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Old 09-02-2015, 04:00 AM   #376
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You will have to have K4PC installed to be able to use Alf.

Now... let's say Amazon fully converts to KFX for K4PC downloads, and old versions of K4PC stop working. Also, Transfer by USB might delivering AZW3 files because Amazon cannot know for which device you are downloading.

If this is the case, would it be possible to leave K4PC installed, block the executable from running (just remove your user access rights from it), and then downloading books for transfer by USB and importing them into Calibre, having K4PC installed only to provide the encryption key?
This is getting towards detailed discussion of how to do DRM removal.

But I think I can say that download for transfer via USB is only available for physical Kindles. (Possibly only E-Ink Kindles.)
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You will have to have K4PC installed to be able to use Alf.
No, you can use Alf for "Transfer via USB" transfers, too.

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Now... let's say Amazon fully converts to KFX for K4PC downloads, and old versions of K4PC stop working. Also, Transfer by USB might delivering AZW3 files because Amazon cannot know for which device you are downloading.
"Transfer via USB" does know what device the content is being delivered to. Remember Amazon's DRM is locked to a device, not to an account, so when you do a "transfer via USB" you have to tell Amazon's server what specific Kindle the content is being delivered for.

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If this is the case, would it be possible to leave K4PC installed, block the executable from running (just remove your user access rights from it), and then downloading books for transfer by USB and importing them into Calibre, having K4PC installed only to provide the encryption key?
It doesn't work like that. The encryption key for K4PC is different to that for a hardware Kindle device.

We're really getting too close to the specific details of DRM removal here, where we aren't allowed to discuss.
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Old 09-02-2015, 04:03 AM   #378
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You will have to have K4PC installed to be able to use Alf.

Now... let's say Amazon fully converts to KFX for K4PC downloads, and old versions of K4PC stop working. Also, Transfer by USB might delivering AZW3 files because Amazon cannot know for which device you are downloading.

If this is the case, would it be possible to leave K4PC installed, block the executable from running (just remove your user access rights from it), and then downloading books for transfer by USB and importing them into Calibre, having K4PC installed only to provide the encryption key?
I suggest you reread the guides on Alf's website.

Suffice it to say, you've got it all wrong.



What I think I can say here is, take a look at the Manage Your Kindle page. It asks you which E-Ink-only device you are downloading a book for.
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Old 09-02-2015, 05:03 AM   #379
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Now you can see how long I've not downloaded a book using Amazon or K4PC, and when I did, I just treated it the same as if it was ADE; and that just worked fine.
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Old 09-02-2015, 07:07 AM   #380
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There is something I am unsure about.

Is there a difference in downloading with Kindle for PC, and downloading for transfer via USB? I see both of them mentioned all the time.
One more note on this: There are a few books which will not download to Kindle for PC. But you can download them for transfer via USB. These are comics and similar books. You will see an "Available on these devices" pop-up link on the product page. If you send them directly to a device, you get the AZW3/AZW6 situation.
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Both achieve the same end result, and for transferring a single file there's really nothing it in. If you buy a fair number of books, though, the K4PC route is easier, because I have it as my default device when buying books, so any new books I've bought are automatically downloaded to it when I run it. With "transfer via USB" I'd need to manually download the books one at a time.
If you use k4pc instead of direct purchase from your kindle, do you lose the new typography?
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Old 09-03-2015, 01:30 AM   #382
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Yes, you do -- The new typography is part of KFX, and if you use a method designed to avoid KFX then you are avoiding the new typography as well.
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Old 09-03-2015, 04:46 AM   #383
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If you use k4pc instead of direct purchase from your kindle, do you lose the new typography?
Not permanently. A download directly to your kindle from your Amazon account will use the new typography (if available) no matter how the book was purchased.
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Old 09-03-2015, 12:25 PM   #384
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Early adopters are encourage to try the latest (6.3.4) release of the tools which I've just made available at github. Links should appear at Alf's blog shortly as well.

The main change is to support Kobo Desktop 3.17.
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Thanks to those who worked out what had changed! It's always nice to have more than one way to remove DRM.
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I don't really want to feed this thread, but I can confirm that the latest version of Kindle for Mac does NOT download KFX files for books with that use all the advanced typesetting features on my Voyage.

Doom averted.
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I don't really want to feed this thread, but I can confirm that the latest version of Kindle for Mac does NOT download KFX files for books with that use all the advanced typesetting features on my Voyage.

Doom averted.
Thank you!

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Old 10-06-2015, 02:41 AM   #388
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Early adopters who have a kobo reader are encourage to try the latest (6.3.4a) release of the tools which I've just made available at github. Links should appear at Alf's blog shortly as well.

The only change is to the obok tool to support import from Kobo readers.
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Early adopters who have a kobo reader are encourage to try the latest (6.3.4a) release of the tools which I've just made available at github. Links should appear at Alf's blog shortly as well.

The only change is to the obok tool to support import from Kobo readers.
Thanks for all your efforts!

Confirming, the 'a' version worked as it should for the 'friends of obok'.
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As of a week ago, the tools were no longer allowing me to decrypt anything, and the a-release hasn't changed this. From the Digital Reader comments others are having the same issue.

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