Dealing with Kindle ebooks in calibre

[KrautHolg]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

NoDRM works with books published in 2023 and 2024. Don't forget to insert the serial number of your Scribe, though.

How do I find out when the eBook version of ASIN: B07SZTH9RH (1. September 2016) - not the paper version - was actually published?

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by KrautHolg

How do I find out when the eBook version of ASIN: B07SZTH9RH (1. September 2016) - not the paper version - was actually published?

Why do you think this is not the correct date?

[KrautHolg]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Why do you think this is not the correct date?

I have read the paper version many times and the eBook version was not available for many years. I have no idea when the eBook version first became available as I didn't check regularly.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by KrautHolg

I have read the paper version many times and the eBook version was not available for many years. I have no idea when the eBook version first became available as I didn't check regularly.

Then that 2016 date seems likely, doesn't it? There's no secret way to tell. If the publisher has no other information and googling doesn't discover anything either, then that's probably it.

[DNSB]

The search results I found show the oldest publication date for the paper version being 1982 with a second edition in 1992 and the ebook version in 2016 so the date shown on Amazon, Everand, etc. for the ebook publication date is likely correct.

[Ma'am-I-Am]

Originally Posted by KrautHolg

How do I find out when the eBook version of ASIN: B07SZTH9RH (1. September 2016) - not the paper version - was actually published?

As this ebook is in German and I don't know your location, I'd jot down the ISBN for the ebook (ISBN 978-3-667-10600-1) and ask the publisher (if it's that important to you). The date of publication given at Amzn US, for example, is only for the US version. Some books will have something like "orginally published in [country] by [publisher]" in the copyright info, but this one doesn't.

Note that WorldCat records show the ebook as published in 2016.

[ownedbycats]

I'm not even sure if the actual publication date matters so much as the date it became available for sale on Kindle. Usually the pubdate matches up but Is it possible for the publishers to backdate it?

[akaishizuki]

Hello.
I try the 3 methods posted but don't work. I downloaded the Kindle for pc correct, do all steps but I can't convert in calibre. Before limitation of amazon e-books I can convert and send to kindle. Never had any problem.


There is another method I cant try and work?

My Kindle is 11th generation,

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by akaishizuki

Hello.
I try the 3 methods posted but don't work. I downloaded the Kindle for pc correct, do all steps but I can't convert in calibre. Before limitation of amazon e-books I can convert and send to kindle. Never had any problem.


There is another method I cant try and work?

My Kindle is 11th generation,

Method 1 should work with a 11th gen. Kindle.

[akaishizuki]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Method 1 should work with a 11th gen. Kindle.

So, I can't. Show a window in calibre saying Dedrm protection. Kindle unpack say "not suitable format to..."
I download Kindle version 2.3.5(70840)
Kindle version is actual.

[akaishizuki]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Method 1 should work with a 11th gen. Kindle.

It works.
Its work if I don't have a kindle?
If I want to buy a book in another account but I don't have this device just application, There is a method working?

[akaishizuki]

Originally Posted by akaishizuki

It works. But just in 1 book, I download anothers to test and kindleunpack plugin show it's impossible.
Just one is azw format but other is in azw3 and don't work.
Its work if I don't have a kindle?
If I want to buy a book in another account but I don't have this device just application, There is a method working?

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by akaishizuki

It works. But just in 1 book, I download anothers to test and kindleunpack plugin show it's impossible.
Just one is azw format but other is in azw3 and don't work.
Its work if I don't have a kindle?
If I want to buy a book in another account but I don't have this device just application, There is a method working?

Did you enter the serial number of your Kindle in the deDRM plugin settings?

Method 1 only works if you have an actual eink Kindle registered to your account. If the other account has no Kindle device registered to it, you'll have to use one of the other methods.

[meghane_e]

I'm finding it's not too hard to use B&N, at least this year. The app was more difficult in the past but it seems to have been worked out.

1. Buy B&N book.
2. Use the Nook app on PC/Mac.
3. Sync file (click on the bottom of the app to bring up activity bars.
4. Download book.
5. (I only know PC) Find the library location by going to ~user\AppData\Local\Packages\BarnesNoble*\LocalSta te

I know it's infinitely easier than Amazon:
Almost no books released in 2024 on Amazon seem accessible. Even when they don't have DRM, the books won't download unless it's on a more recent version of the Kindle Reading app. Books released in 2021-2023 has some that are, some that aren't.

They've also been re-releasing many books with added DRM.

[Sirtel]

I've bought and deDRMed a lot of 2024 Kindle books. It's still doable, unless you're on a Mac and have no eink Kindle device. Then it's difficult.