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Old 02-04-2026, 05:02 PM   #3331
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What eBooks that come down as DRM Free KF8 are not able to be downloaded? What makes some PDF?
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Old 02-04-2026, 05:39 PM   #3332
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What eBooks that come down as DRM Free KF8 are not able to be downloaded?
Previously published books for which the publisher has not yet explicitly enabled downloads.

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What makes some PDF?
That appears to happen when Amazon’s conversion from KFX to EPUB fails. The conversion used seems to be the same as is implemented in the Kindle Create software. I have seen that fail for some books based on included fonts and unusual formatting. It is buggy.
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Old 02-12-2026, 04:56 AM   #3333
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So Amazon now have a direct download link for DRM-Free ebooks on their device management pages. It says something like 'Download the epub/pdf', but I got a zip file, which when opened showed the content of an epub file, so I just renamed from zip to epub, and then added to and opened in calibre, and all works fine, including the cover.

Funny how it is a zip file, but maybe that is seen as a deterrent to immediately side-loading to a Kobo device. Other than that, it is kind of weird that Amazon seem to be supporting epub devices now.

Anyway at least it is less painful now to get some ebooks from Amazon ... at least where you know they are DRM-Free and likely listed as such.

I grabbed a couple of free Joe Vasicek ebooks, which I know are always DRM-Free.
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Old 02-12-2026, 05:00 AM   #3334
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So Amazon now have a direct download link for DRM-Free ebooks on their device management pages. It says something like 'Download the epub/pdf', but I got a zip file, which when opened showed the content of an epub file, so I just renamed from zip to epub, and then added to and opened in calibre, and all works fine, including the cover.

Funny how it is a zip file, but maybe that is seen as a deterrent to immediately side-loading to a Kobo device. Other than that, it is kind of weird that Amazon seem to be supporting epub devices now.

Anyway at least it is less painful now to get some ebooks from Amazon ... at least where you know they are DRM-Free and likely listed as such.

I grabbed a couple of free Joe Vasicek ebooks, which I know are always DRM-Free.
This has been discussed to death in multiple threads. Including speculations as to Amazon's reasons.
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Old 02-12-2026, 05:26 AM   #3335
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Chrome based browsers are changing the file type from epub to zip.
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Old 02-12-2026, 05:49 AM   #3336
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This has been discussed to death in multiple threads. Including speculations as to Amazon's reasons.
My apologies, somehow I missed the following thread when I dropped in, and this one seemed a suitable one, where there was some discussion of it but not specific.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...=371082&page=1

I'm all up-to-date now, including about the Chrome browser zip issue. I'm using Brave a Chrome clone lower on resources.
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Old 02-13-2026, 08:24 AM   #3337
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New K4PC (2.8.2) should work with this, if somebody could check? No changes that I could see, but maybe? I did not look deep.
Edit: Ah, amazon is tricker than I thought. Please avoid 2.8.2 for now.
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