I Survived the Great Amazon DL Dealdline!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Does anyone happen to know what was the last *available* version of K4PC (that someone still has an EXE installer available for without scouring some shady Russian websites) that delivered books in AZW3 format rather than KFX? v2.4 is better than nothing, but the KFX format is somewhat of a pain to deal with.

I was still getting AZW3s with K4PC 1.19, so I assume the switchover happened somewhere between 1.19 and 2.4.

You need the 2.4 version which delivers KFX and you need the Alpha version of DeDRM.

[DNSB]

You can get 2.4.0 (70904) directly from Amazon. The secret sauce is in modifying the URL for the current version. In this case, changing the 70964 directory to 70904 and the filename from KindleForPC-installer-2.6.70964.exe to KindleForPC-installer-2.4.70964.exe. Is thanking Amazon for not purging older versions so you can still the 2.4.0 version is appropriate?

https://kindleforpc.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/70964/KindleForPC-installer-2.6.70964.exe

https://kindleforpc.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/70904/KindleForPC-installer-2.4.70904.exe

KindleForPC-installer-2.4.70904.exe

[ownedbycats]

Back it up.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

You can get 2.4.0 (70904) directly from Amazon. The secret sauce is in modifying the URL for the current version. In this case, changing the 70964 directory to 70904 and the filename from KindleForPC-installer-2.6.70964.exe to KindleForPC-installer-2.4.70964.exe. Is thanking Amazon for not purging older versions so you can still the 2.4.0 version is appropriate?

https://kindleforpc.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/70964/KindleForPC-installer-2.6.70964.exe

https://kindleforpc.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/70904/KindleForPC-installer-2.4.70904.exe

KindleForPC-installer-2.4.70904.exe

If I was to install K4PC 2.4.7, would I get full resolution images and/or color images vs KFX from my PW3?

[DNSB]

Try it and find out? Experimentalism is fun!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Try it and find out? Experimentalism is fun!

I have not installed K4PC on this laptop. So if there is no advantage, I'd rather not install it.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You need the 2.4 version which delivers KFX and you need the Alpha version of DeDRM.

Yes, I can deal with the KFX format if I have to...my complaint is that it sucks. That's why I asked what the last K4PC version was that still delivers the books as AZW3 rather than KFX.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Yes, I can deal with the KFX format if I have to...my complaint is that it sucks. That's why I asked what the last K4PC version was that still delivers the books as AZW3 rather than KFX.

Yes, it does and is less close to publisher's intent than AZW3/KF8. The "advanced typesetting" in mostly rendering that could be applied to azw3.

[DiapDealer]

Most people that remove DRM and format shift are the same ones that prefer to customize/homogenize their ebook formatting experience anyway. We are rapidly approaching a time where "Publisher's Intent" is a meaningless distinction.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Most people that remove DRM and format shift are the same ones that prefer to customize/homogenize their ebook formatting experience anyway. We are rapidly approaching a time where "Publisher's Intent" is a meaningless distinction.

For me, it's that I've always preferred the resulting EPUB from using the KindleUnpack plugin over Calibre's stock "convert" option. KindleUnpack can't seem to do anything with the KFX files.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

For me, it's that I've always preferred the resulting EPUB from using the KindleUnpack plugin over Calibre's stock "convert" option.

Well you won't get any arguments from me, there.

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

KindleUnpack can't seem to do anything with the KFX files.

There was talk, but it's such a drastic change from the other formats that I'm not certain incorporating it into the existing KindleUnpack routines would be the best use of someone's time.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Most people that remove DRM and format shift are the same ones that prefer to customize/homogenize their ebook formatting experience anyway. We are rapidly approaching a time where "Publisher's Intent" is a meaningless distinction.

We know what the publisher's intent is. It's to duplicate the pBook experience and in a lot of cases, that doesn't work for the eBook.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

We know what the publisher's intent is. It's to duplicate the pBook experience and in a lot of cases, that doesn't work for the eBook.

For some publisers, not all. I agree ebooks shouldn't ape the printed ones and should take advantage of reflowing and user size changes instead of fighting it.

[Tarana]

Everything downloaded. Now just dithering as to whether to pay FULL PRICE* on the remaining Wheel of Time (these 5 have never been discounted). I'm only dithering because I already spent my book annual budget filling in series only available at Amazon and it's only February. My only difficulty was finding out that 2 books are KF8 so limited to my Fire. They are encyclopedia type books (Star Wars characters, Marvel characters).

*anything over $2.99

[lbschenkel]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

For me, it's that I've always preferred the resulting EPUB from using the KindleUnpack plugin over Calibre's stock "convert" option. KindleUnpack can't seem to do anything with the KFX files.

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

There was talk, but it's such a drastic change from the other formats that I'm not certain incorporating it into the existing KindleUnpack routines would be the best use of someone's time.

KFX input plugin has a "From KFX" menu option that does a similar thing and transforms the KFX into an EPUB without going through the Calibre conversion pipeline. It's basically what you're asking for.

Granted, it's not as "clean" as transcoding from KF8 which is basically just a container change, but as "clean" as you can get taking into account how KFX works.