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This may be because I'm on my work's Mackbook, don't know if Calibre loses tools in the OS X version (usually a Windows guy)... but there's no "Polish Book" option when right clicking in the library
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Soooo.. that didn't work! Heh. Trying to check "update cover" on the Polish tool I get a "FAILED" message. clicking for details I get: Quote:
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As a general rule if a book has DRM, then Calibre cannot change it in any way. The only actions being to store it and send it to a device/folder. This is one of the reasons many people remove DRM even from books they have legally bought.
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I GOT IT DONE!!!
I did *not* have to mess with the DRM and still was able to change the cover. All you need to do is pretty much follow eschwartz's great instructions. I wish I could give him 42million karma. Thanks again, man(or ma'am)!! Thanks everyone else for their patience, too! |
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Good to hear you got it working. These file clashes are a pain, aren't they? And so is penguin for not giving us real covers. ![]() ![]() Hopefully, you learned something awesome about how everything works, of course, to aid you in your future travels.... Did I mention my custom columns for saving Amazon books back to the right place on my kindle? If you do this for a lot of books, you may want to follow some more instructions: create a custom column called, say, "origfile" and save the original filename for all your amazon books in it. Use this template in your Device customization for Kindle, in the save template: Code:
program: ifempty( field('#file'), template('[[author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)]]/[[title]] - [[authors:sublist(0,1,&)]]') ) WARNING: disable "send page number information when sending books" or your page numbers painstakingly compiled by Amazon get overwritten with random guesses. Although I did tweak it to only use the first author if there are multiple. Tried and tested for perfect calibre changes to your Amazonized books Last edited by eschwartz; 12-03-2013 at 07:29 PM. |
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First I'm glad you got it working and kudos and karma to eschwartz for supplying precise instructions.
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You absolutely do not need DRM for Amazon features to work. I have liberated all my books and pretty much use calibre exclusively to add them, except when I first download. All are added using my custom save template, and as long as the sdr matches up with the azw(3) you get the features. For example, many books are now being sold without DRM. I assure you the features still work with them.
Once the reader has decrypted the book, it is seen exactly the same as if it has no DRM What matters is, don't convert the book, or it will in fact be a different book but with the same words/formatting/ToC/cover/etc. and naturally, the features will be broken. And you could hack the features, too, to create a homemade X-Ray, apnx, phl, etc. There are actually projects to do several of these already. For example, calibre by default generates pseudo-pagenumbers for your books with src/calibre/devices/kindle/apnx.py and at http://www.xunwang.me/xray/ you can create X-Ray files with some limitations. As long as the book has the same offsets, though, which DRM does not affect, all feature files will mesh properly. |
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PS what's an sdr ? update - forget that question, already answered in your post #10 Last edited by cybmole; 02-10-2014 at 03:13 AM. |
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