Amazon and DRM changes

[wmfs]

Does anyone where Kindle for Mac v 7.32 stores ebooks now?

[Neog2]

Well I know this isn't a solution for everyone but as I only purchase a couple books a week my solution to convert books to epub works 100% just the process is tedious and takes a bit of time. But instead of trying to crack the DRM i just bypass. I'm hoping that someone can make a script or a A.I. Agent to automate the process.

Windows 11. Current version of the Snipping Tool has OCR capability built in.
Amazon Cloud Reader, or the latest version of Kindle for PC both can be used.

1. Kindle for PC I can get the font size down to where it will show 3 pages of text per page turn. and still be able to correctly be read by Windows "Text Actions" >"Copy all text" feature and then place in a word document.

So the Book i did today had 190 screenshots including Title Page, and 2 Pages of Table of Contents screenshots. File names are the Beginning Page number. So for today's Book it went like this.

1. Title Page
2. Table of Contents 1
3. Table of Contents 2
4. Page 013 Chapter 1
5. Page 016
6. Page 020 Chapter 2
7. Page 023
8. Page 026 Chapter 3

Then I extracted Text into a Narrow Margin No Space Word Document. For my use case Word Documents, PDF's and Epub's all work. But its not hard to convert a doc to epub.

I have also tested this with Open A.I.'s Operator (A.I. Agent ) using a Google drive folder and a free OCR website. It does work but you need to be very specific about the prompts and it needs to download each picture individually then upload each one to the free website to extract the text but it will take all the text and put in a doc for you. Unsure why Operator doesn't have the capability of ChatGpt when it comes to directly extracting text from a Picture.

ChatGPT also works in testing to extract text from pictures but you are limited to 10 pics at a time and its considerably slower than just doing Snipping Tool, copy all text, then paste directly into a word document.

And down the line even if they prevent you from taking screenshots with Snipping Tool in windows you can always use something like OBS screen capture then extract text using the Snipping Tool directly on OBS. Or even a step further if you have two pc's and a capture card do the exact same process mirroring image onto a second pc then use your OCR program of choice.

Obviously this process is Tedious and works vastly better with books that are basically only text. If your book has tons of tables or charts like in LitRPG/GameLit type of books then you will have to do some clean up manually every so often.

Just posting as a work around and maybe the script kiddies or the people that are currently gathering to make useful A.I. Agents can ultilize their skills and just bypass this whole DRM crap for purchased books.

[JSWolf]

It's then a lot of work to do the formatting. It's a lot easier to forgo exclusive eBooks on Amazon and buy ePub.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Neog2

Just posting as a work around and maybe the script kiddies or the people that are currently gathering to make useful A.I. Agents can ultilize their skills and just bypass this whole DRM crap for purchased books.

Another person basically proving that DRM is not useful for protecting content when the end user has to be able to view that content.

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by wmfs

Does anyone where Kindle for Mac v 7.32 stores ebooks now?

They don't work with the DeDRM plugin. See method 2b here for info on current state of the Mac app (basically done): https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=361503

[mitra1]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Another person basically proving that DRM is not useful for protecting content when the end user has to be able to view that content.

It isn't useful against piracy but the standard user doesn't want lose so much time to remove drm so Drm is against normal people but not against piracy

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by mitra1

It isn't useful against piracy but the standard user doesn't want lose so much time to remove drm so Drm is against normal people but not against piracy

Like stupid websites that disable copy/paste.

Kindle with camera and Lego robot to turn page was demoed years ago.

[gadget.felugyelo]

Originally Posted by jhowell

BookFab uses a clever hack to avoid the need to crack the latest KFX DRM. It obtains the customer's credentials and Kindle for PC registration info and then communicates with Amazon's servers pretending to be the latest version of Kindle for PC. However unlike the real app, when it requests a book for download it indicates that it only supports older KFX DRM that has been cracked since 2021. Surprisingly that actually works.

I tried out the demo version which enables to download 3 books. The 3rd book was published on the 7th May 2025 (but it wasn't the newest of the three...) and after multiple tries and retries, the Download [still] fails. I did not yet contacted the BookFab support...

[bustacap]

Originally Posted by gadget.felugyelo

I tried out the demo version which enables to download 3 books. The 3rd book was published on the 7th May 2025 (but it wasn't the newest of the three...) and after multiple tries and retries, the Download [still] fails. I did not yet contacted the BookFab support...

what book is it?

[vrstal]

re:BookFab failing downloads. This happened starting only today for me too, despite attempting to download books before the May 26th cut-off. Prior to that, I had downloaded over 10 books no issue. I don't think the issue is Amazon side, so I contacted support. They told me to just reinstall the software (didn't work), so I will see what they say next.

[rantanplan]

Maybe Amazon is already blocking bookfab.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

Maybe Amazon is already blocking bookfab.

Is what I'm thinking. Would be interesting to see what HTTP status is getting returned.

[vrstal]

Update received from customer service:

“ The Amazon site has recently made an update on the encryption part, which requires an update of BookFab. Our developers are actively working on it.
Please kindly wait for an update.
We would appreciate your continued support and patience.”

So now, we wait and see if it’ll be possible 🤷🏼

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by vrstal

Update received from customer service:

“ The Amazon site has recently made an update on the encryption part, which requires an update of BookFab. Our developers are actively working on it.
Please kindly wait for an update.
We would appreciate your continued support and patience.”

So now, we wait and see if it’ll be possible ����

It didn't take Amazon long to fill in the hole.

If they cannot fix this, will they refund the money for anyone who bought BookFab?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

If they cannot fix this, will they refund the money for anyone who bought BookFab?

I'll be surprised if they refund. If you bought through credit card, there's the chargeback option.