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I looked to see on my cloned 2002 laptop to a VM if I'd ever had an early "Kindle Converter for PC" as that allegedly originally could make Topaz format. I didn't, but there was Mobi Creator and a Kindle Kids Creator. So I looked on my server archive of Win Install and there was a KindleForPC-installer-1.21.48017.exe and I tried it, but nothing happened after installer loader reached 100%. So I looked online and the oldest to quickly find was kindle-for-pc-1.2.1.30427.exe though it wanted Windows Messenger 5.1 (!). It didn't work either. Curiously it wanted to load a web page to Deregister the Kindle at uninstall! The first Kindle came out 2007 / 2008 (not many in 2007 I think) and Vista arrived in 2007. I'd have imagined an early "Kindle Converter for PC" would have run on XP as the much later Kindle Kids thing did. I still have some real XP stuff somewhere, but I think I've lost interest. I imagine converting Topaz to anything other than an image based PDF gives results like Archive Org's epub / mobi / azw3 on the fly from their unproofed OCR layers on their PDFs. Really only their PDFs are readable. Maybe the only remaining use for a DXG is Topaz? |
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The only exception I know of is Kindle for Web; probably the defunct Windows Phone/RT/8 app and webOS apps didn't either. One might think a large publisher like Springer would remove their Topaz titles and replace them with ones using newer format. Well they have added listing for the newer format, but at least for one I checked, neglected to remove or change the one for Topaz. The Topaz version (works on every Kindle or Kindle app) will set you back $89, the Print Replica version (Kindle apps only) is $39.49. Last edited by tomsem; 02-17-2025 at 08:19 PM. |
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I haven't managed to download a usable .kfx into Calibre. If anyone could explain what I'm doing wrong, I'd be very grateful.
I have the KFX Input (2.19.0) and DeDRM (10.0.9) plugins. Whilst I've seen references above to a later(?) alpha version, I haven't been able to find it in a format in which I can load it into Calibre (i.e., DeDRM_plugin.zip or a .zip containing that file). When I tried loading a KFX book from K4PC (2.6.1), it came into Calibre, but as a KFX-ZIP, which I understand means that it was still bound by DRM. When I tried adding a book from my Kindle (11th generation, firmware 5.17.1.0.4), nothing arrived in Calibre. (I told it to download This PC\Kindle\Internal Storage\documents\Downloads\Items01\A Briefer History of Time_B00351YEZS.sdr\assets\attachables\CR!52MZXT1H MD7SBA8YBF0KR0F4SZBZ.kfx. Was this the wrong file to select?) |
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and the alpha can be found at the dedrm tools autorelease git |
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Thank you. That has helped - the book has now come through from K4PC (2.4.0) as a KFX, and I've managed to convert it to KEPUB. Whoopee!
Thank you. I've now found it. I think that I must have been looking in the wrong place the other day - all I saw then was the source code. |
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Log in to your Amazon account > Manage Your Content and Devices Copy the cookie and save it to a file ('cookie.txt'): https://github.com/yihong0618/Kindle...rieving-cookie Execute the Python utility (this example accesses amazon.co.uk): Code:
python kindle.py --cookie-file cookie.txt --uk -o DOWNLOADS --device_sn [Your Kindle serial no.] --mode all Code:
python kindle.py --cookie-file cookie.txt --uk --list --device_sn [Your Kindle serial no.] |
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I now have that version of K4PC. All I saw in my Kindle was folders with book names, and hadn't realised that there were .azw files with the same names as well. Doh! Anyway, I tried picking up the relevant .azw file instead.... and still nothing happened. However, I now seem to be able to get books from K4PC. That's not ideal (because the file names are very unhelpful), but it'll serve my purposes. |
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So I decided to take advantage of a recent Kobo offer of £70 in giftcards for £60. (Buy a £60 giftcard and get an additional £10 gift card.) So The extra gift card arrived in email this morning, so I have £70 in store credit that cost me £60. I had some hassle buying the giftcard, so contacted cusromer service, who sent me a one-off 90% discount code, which I used to buy VIP membership. So £60 got me £69.40 in credit. And today I need to buy a book club book. At Amazon it's £5.99. At Kobo it's £5.39 (10% off for VIP members), and as I haven't used Kobo for ages, the save30 discount code works, so I get another 30% off, taking it to £3.65. Taking into account to £69.40 in credit for £60, that's another 13.5%, taking actual cost to £3.16, a 47% discount. ![]() It's possible that I'll end up being pleased Amazon have stopped D&T, and made me look at Kobo again. I'll have to try out their price matching on the next book. |
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