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Old 03-07-2025, 02:03 PM   #46
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I'm reading (I think) a kepub on my kobo right now, and it's reminding me why I always preferred the kindle. Massive borders I can't get rid of. Having to mess up my epub settings to try to make it a bit more usable.

Sure, my kobo OS hasn't been updated for many years - I stopped it connecting after updates kept making things worse - and maybe it's better these days, but I've rarely had major issues with the actual reading part on any of my kindles.
I haven't been annoyed by this for a long while. The kobo usually is able to override whatever setting the ePub have.
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Old 03-07-2025, 04:12 PM   #47
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Well, I am not a sophisticated computer user. When I got the laptop over a year ago I installed the Kindle app version from the installer app that I had saved. I just checked the version to answer the previous post.it is indeed correct. I load the plugin into Calibre. No problems.
Have you tried to download any books published in 2023 and later?
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Have you tried to download any books published in 2023 and later?
Just to make sure- I downloaded the book The Sublet by Greer Hendricks, an Amazon free First Reed with a publication date of April 1 2025 on my laptop. Loaded into Calibre version 6.23. Converted to epub, no problem. Read in MapleRead CE on my iPad.
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Peeks tend to NOT have encumbrances that the full edition does.
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Peeks tend to NOT have encumbrances that the full edition does.
First Read books are not Peeks, they're full books.

Strange. We were all under the impression that anything older than 2.40 wouldn't download post-2022 books, but it seems some older versions still do.
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Strange. We were all under the impression that anything older than 2.40 wouldn't download post-2022 books, but it seems some older versions still do.
I don’t think it has even been established what the oldest workable version currently is.

Kindle for PC 2.4.0 is recommended because it is the newest version with removable DRM. If that becomes blocked by Amazon then it is likely that all older versions will also be unusable.
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What is with the post-2022 limit anyways? I can't figure out why they left older books still able to be de-drmed. Do they not have KFX copies of those?
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What is with the post-2022 limit anyways? I can't figure out why they left older books still able to be de-drmed. Do they not have KFX copies of those?
I don't think it's a technical reason. Just a random limit Amazon imposed in their ongoing efforts to discourage DRM removal. As the pre-KFX versions of Kindle apps were by far the most used for this, Amazon disabled new books for those. Why they didn't disable everything, no idea. Certainly not because they have no KFX for older books - if you download an older book with 2.40, you'll get a KFX.
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What is with the post-2022 limit anyways?
It is an incentive to update the software without blocking older versions completely. I assume they did not do a hard cutoff because they realize that some PC users are still running Windows 7 and are unable to update to the latest app versions that require Windows 10 or 11.

When they updated Kindle for Mac recently Amazon did a hard cutoff preventing the old versions from downloading any books at all. It would not surprise me if they do the same thing for Kindle for PC now that their new DRM has been out for awhile without being broken yet.

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I can't figure out why they left older books still able to be de-drmed. Do they not have KFX copies of those?
Amazon went back and produced KFX versions of even very old books. Lack of KFX format has nothing to do with this cutoff.
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I don’t think it has even been established what the oldest workable version currently is.

Kindle for PC 2.4.0 is recommended because it is the newest version with removable DRM. If that becomes blocked by Amazon then it is likely that all older versions will also be unusable.
2.4.0? A while back, I had heard that 1.17.0 was the newest version with removable DRM.
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2.4.0? A while back, I had heard that 1.17.0 was the newest version with removable DRM.
That information is outdated.
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... their new DRM has been out for awhile without being broken yet.
... that we know of

With the way things have been going, I wouldn't be surprised if anyone who breaks the current DRM thinks twice about how they share their findings — if they share their findings at all.
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That information is outdated.
Thanks for the update.
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Thanks for the update.
For the latest information see the first post of the thread Dealing with Kindle ebooks in calibre.
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To bring you up to date on my previous posts. Windows 11, laptop. Kindle updated the program automatically without my permission. DRM removal no longer works. Reinstalled old version of Kindle, version 1.40.1. Made sure auto-update in Tools-Options was un-selected. Back to normal
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