Amazon and DRM changes

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

ACSM. Adobe Content Server Message, I believe.

Thanks for that. I could tattoo it on my arm and I'd still mess it up.

That ACSM Calibre plug-in has been terrific. Having to use ADE gave a process that was almost identical to buying from Amazon and using K4PC. The plug-in saves me some steps. Now we just need to keep Kobo from turning evil.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I have left WiFi on, haven't sideloaded anything. Yet my current book (The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler) is missing its cover. Instead it shows me the generic Vintage title page.

On the upside, no lock-screen ads. Not sure why I don't have them, but I'll take it.

I've downloaded some eBooks to my Kindle Touch and I did get the covers. Could it be a KFX issue?

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Plus, if you have a PW3 that has an older (non-KFX) firmware, it's possible that Amazon may force a firmware update in order to be able to sync eBooks.

Any firmware too old to download KFX is plenty old enough to block updates by making an update.bin.tmp.partial' diectory.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=219986

[issybird]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I have left WiFi on, haven't sideloaded anything. Yet my current book (The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler) is missing its cover. Instead it shows me the generic Vintage title page.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I've downloaded some eBooks to my Kindle Touch and I did get the covers. Could it be a KFX issue?

It’s a PRH issue.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by issybird

It’s a PRH issue.

The books I downloaded were from KU/Prime. So they would have a proper (proper being relative given some self-published covers) cover.

[Quoth]

I've bought ebooks from the House of Random Penguins and Download from Content & Devices often had generic covers. But often they have newer covers on the Website anyway that seem stupid, so I find the older ones with Calibre.

I presume that's what PRH stands for?

Often they have clueless CSS/HTML too.

[NiQ]

Just wanted to check - is a 6th gen PW2 good enough? The first message said 4th and 5th are best but I only managed to get 6th.

Also - Is it possible to extract downloaded books from a jailbroken PW2 running 5.12.2.2?

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Quoth

I've bought ebooks from the House of Random Penguins and Download from Content & Devices often had generic covers. But often they have newer covers on the Website anyway that seem stupid, so I find the older ones with Calibre.

I presume that's what PRH stands for?

Yes. Penguin, Random House and their imprints. The issue seems mostly endemic to them; the only non-associated imprint I’ve run into this problem with is Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by stumped

Amazon were selling , for free recently , a nice new kindle copy of Orwell's 1984.

so i bought that, only to find that i will need the new hardened DRM to open it. it refused to download to my trusty k for PC 1/17

I'm sure there's a clever joke in there about big brother and censorship . - truth is lies, ( free is not DRM free )
and not even free now, price has gone back to £2.99

1984 (Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell)[Kindle Edition]
By: George Orwell
Sold by: Amazon EU S.à.r.l.
Qty: 1

£0.00

One of the times that Amazon pulled down a book from the Kindle store and remotely deleted the books from devices was, somewhat ironically, an edition of 1984. (I believe it wasn't legal, though, and customers were refunded.)

[anniem72]

Yesterday I was unable to download and transfer via usb from my pc any prime reading ebooks. Amazon had disabled this function for me. Of course no one at Amazon customer service was any help. I have never subscribed to kindle unlimited but a mod on the Amazon device forum suggested they might be disabling this function for prime reading ebooks as those are a subsidiary of kindle unlimited. I am still able to download and transfer via usb purchased Amazon ebooks, borrowed public library books (Overdrive) and the free prime first reads ebooks, they just disabled this process for prime reading ebooks for me. None of the 4 Amazon customer service people I spoke with last night had a clue. Always a new disappointment with Amazon, continually increasing prime membership fees while reducing prime membership benefits. No behemoth company is ever too big or clever to fail; hope they get some less creepy less greedy people at the top soon.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by anniem72

Yesterday I was unable to download and transfer via usb from my pc any prime reading ebooks. Amazon had disabled this function for me. Of course no one at Amazon customer service was any help. I have never subscribed to kindle unlimited but a mod on the Amazon device forum suggested they might be disabling this function for prime reading ebooks as those are a subsidiary of kindle unlimited. I am still able to download and transfer via usb purchased Amazon ebooks, borrowed public library books (Overdrive) and the free prime first reads ebooks, they just disabled this process for prime reading ebooks for me. None of the 4 Amazon customer service people I spoke with last night had a clue. Always a new disappointment with Amazon, continually increasing prime membership fees while reducing prime membership benefits. No behemoth company is ever too big or clever to fail; hope they get some less creepy less greedy people at the top soon.

Download & Transfer via USB no longer works with any Kindle Unlimited/Prime eBooks. If they were published before January 3, 2023, you can download them with an older KindleForPC (or MAC). New KU/Prime eBooks you need to either buy them, have a Kindle Touch/K3/KK, or use the Blustacks method with an older Android Kindle app.

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by NiQ

Just wanted to check - is a 6th gen PW2 good enough? The first message said 4th and 5th are best but I only managed to get 6th.

Also - Is it possible to extract downloaded books from a jailbroken PW2 running 5.12.2.2?

A Paperwhite 2 will get KFX format downloads, but you can get the older decryptable format from the website for purchased books.

It's possible to get the books files from a non-jailbroken Paperwhite 2. But KFX format won't be decryptable. You'd need a Kindle that doesn't support KFX format at all to decrypt books downloaded directly to it.

eta: unless it happens to be one of the few books which isn't available in KFX format.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Quoth

I've bought ebooks from the House of Random Penguins and Download from Content & Devices often had generic covers. But often they have newer covers on the Website anyway that seem stupid, so I find the older ones with Calibre.

To be clear, I'm not talking about a book downloaded and sideloaded. I'm talking about a book being used as Amazon intends. But yeah, Issy's probably right. It's an issue wi Penguin.

Strangely, now my Raymond Chandler books have covers in my library and on that menu on the bottom of the screen. But when I put it to sleep, I still see the generic Vintage books title page. The most recent chandler covers are pretty damn ugly to me, so it's not a great loss.

[Kaetrin]

I bought a kindle paperwhite 1 (5th gen) as we lost our previous kindles in a recent house move and haven't been able to locate them. I downloaded a book to the kindle which was published after Jan 3 and tried to sideload it into Calibre but I got the following error message:

"calibre, version 6.13.0
Not Implemented: The following books are in KFX format. KFX is a virtual book format, and cannot be transferred from the device. Instead, you should go to your "Manage my content and devices" page on the Amazon homepage and download the book to your computer from there. That will give you a regular AZW3 file that you can add to calibre normally. Click "Show details" to see the list of books."

Except I can't download it from Kindle for PC and get it into Calibre. It won't download in AZW3 format.

I looked at the Kindle for Android option but my brain broke a little. I'm not sure I'm techy enough to get it to work. Any suggestions?

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Kaetrin

I bought a kindle paperwhite 1 (5th gen) as we lost our previous kindles in a recent house move and haven't been able to locate them. I downloaded a book to the kindle which was published after Jan 3 and tried to sideload it into Calibre but I got the following error message:

"calibre, version 6.13.0
Not Implemented: The following books are in KFX format. KFX is a virtual book format, and cannot be transferred from the device. Instead, you should go to your "Manage my content and devices" page on the Amazon homepage and download the book to your computer from there. That will give you a regular AZW3 file that you can add to calibre normally. Click "Show details" to see the list of books."

Except I can't download it from Kindle for PC and get it into Calibre. It won't download in AZW3 format.

I looked at the Kindle for Android option but my brain broke a little. I'm not sure I'm techy enough to get it to work. Any suggestions?

Use the Download and Transfer option on the Content and Devices page to download the file to your PC. Don't download it directly on the Kindle.