Dealing with Kindle ebooks in calibre

[odamizu]

Originally Posted by DNSB

It worked for me this morning around 10AM PST. At 8PM, it would no longer download any ebooks regardless of when they were published (I tested back to March, 2017).

Time to put it to bed with a shovel!

Thanks for reporting back. Ah well ... I will update the first post.

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Still working for me.

I'm guessing Amazon is rolling out this change and yours will stop working in the near future.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by odamizu

I'm guessing Amazon is rolling out this change and yours will stop working in the near future.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it will. Not that I buy much from Amazon these days.

[ku11aa]

Hi
Think there is something on github, and that is the ”help” i thought about.
You are completly right that deDRM help is not supposed to be here nor on the official calibre side.
Github is also full of different treads, so finding the right one???
Greetings from Sweden

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by ku11aa

Hi
Think there is something on github, and that is the ”help” i thought about.
You are completly right that deDRM help is not supposed to be here nor on the official calibre side.
Github is also full of different treads, so finding the right one???
Greetings from Sweden

First, make sure you have the all the necessary plugins, and the correct versions of both the plugins and the apps - as described in the first post of this thread.

Note that Kindle for PC can only be used for deDRMing books published before April 22, and a Fire tablet can't be used for deDRMing at all.

[texasnightowl]

Originally Posted by ku11aa

Hi
Think there is something on github, and that is the ”help” i thought about.
You are completly right that deDRM help is not supposed to be here nor on the official calibre side.
Github is also full of different treads, so finding the right one???
Greetings from Sweden

In the first post of this thread, in the Start Here section. Go to the github for that linked version and you can open an issue if you need help related specifically to the dedrm process.

[NBRuJaDo]

Is it true what the first post says about method X or is it outdated? Being trying to find any way but seems not even payware like Epubor can make anything for know.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by NBRuJaDo

Is it true what the first post says about method X or is it outdated? Being trying to find any way but seems not even payware like Epubor can make anything for know.

It's true. I haven't tried it personally, though.

Edit: tried it and it works. Still, it took a bit of tinkering.

[ku11aa]

Thank you
Will try looking at the beginning.
Am a reader of e-books since well long time.
Happy that others can and want to help us not so good with computer.
Greetings from Sweden

[jscris]

The info needed to find it on github is here in a thread on MR. I've used it several times successfully.

[rohitpurohit]

Is there any news on someone working on new K4PC DRM?

[mclemon]

At least now we're heading back down the road that aligns with the quote below. BTW, a huge thanks to Sirtel for enlightening the rabble... of which I am a part.

Originally Posted by odamizu

My point exactly.

ETA: DiapDealer, who may be one of the original contributors to DeDRM, posted the following a while back. I have taken it increasingly to heart, especially with Amazon clamping down.

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I never said anything about making it complicated/difficult. I said "trivial". And no creation of "elites" either. I just want to limit it to people who are willing to read a bit about how to find, install, and use it. Doesn't seem overly-restrictive to me for a tool that is targeting readers of books, after all. I'm not interested in helping people that want it to announce itself, download and install itself, liberate a library's worth of books, AND remove any and all metadata that may tie books to them all in one go.

It has been my experience that triviality tends to breed complacency and a sense of entitlement that, in my opinion, will cause more harm than it will help.

[Seirious]

Have new methods been established?

I would like to know.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Seirious

Have new methods been established?

I would like to know.

In your case, the best way is to use calibre with DeDRM and KFX Input. Download the eBooks to your PW2. Then plug in your PW2 and drag/drop the .kfx file directly from the PW2 to your calibre library. That's all you need to do.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

In your case, the best way is to use calibre with DeDRM and KFX Input. Download the eBooks to your PW2. Then plug in your PW2 and drag/drop the .kfx file directly from the PW2 to your calibre library. That's all you need to do.

Yes, if you already have an eink Kindle, then it's faster and simpler to use that.

[Seirious]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Yes, if you already have an eink Kindle, then it's faster and simpler to use that.

The fastest and easiest way would be a method that can be completed using only a PC, but that doesn't seem to be the case.