Amazon has removed Download & Transfer option

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

C:\Users\[YourUsername]\Documents\My Kindle Content

Thanks @JSWolf Found it.
It's been a couple of years since I used the app last. It forced me to update otherwise many of my purchases couldn't be downloaded as it required a newer version.
I've not seen any mention of grabbing the downloaded ebook and dropping it into Calibre. Is this still possible to do as it seems to me that losing the download and transfer by USB is not a big deal if you can still download via the app.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Thanks @JSWolf Found it.
It's been a couple of years since I used the app last. It forced me to update otherwise many of my purchases couldn't be downloaded as it required a newer version.
I've not seen any mention of grabbing the downloaded ebook and dropping it into Calibre. Is this still possible to do as it seems to me that losing the download and transfer by USB is not a big deal if you can still download via the app.

Only with the version 2.40 (and you need the latest deDRM + the KFX Input plugin).

[sqdancer]

Originally Posted by Timboli

No longer working for me as of today.
I think Amazon have renamed some IDs.
I had a quick check and play with the code, but JavaScript is not something I am well versed in.

I am a bit late to the party, as I mostly use Kobo these days. I did manage to download over 100 pages before the script stopped working. I was helped by my own script that automated saving ebooks and changing pages etc. I was hoping to share my script here today, and was about to do my final round of checking to make sure all was finally working well enough, to share with others.

P.S. On the bright side, I should have everything anyway, minus a lot of the Updates, which I have started manually working through.

I checked his github and he updated the tampermonkey script. The updated version works for me.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Thanks @JSWolf Found it.
It's been a couple of years since I used the app last. It forced me to update otherwise many of my purchases couldn't be downloaded as it required a newer version.
I've not seen any mention of grabbing the downloaded ebook and dropping it into Calibre. Is this still possible to do as it seems to me that losing the download and transfer by USB is not a big deal if you can still download via the app.

After looking for the directory on my laptop, it seems I've not used K4PC since I got this laptop. I've not even installed it.

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Only with the version 2.40 (and you need the latest deDRM + the KFX Input plugin).

Oh, ok. My app updated to v2.6.1
Thanks.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Only with the version 2.40 (and you need the latest deDRM + the KFX Input plugin).

Not 10.0.9.

[JSWolf]

I've already downloaded most of my Amazon eBooks using my Kindle Touch. I have about 374 left to download. I plan on downloading them this weekend and that's me done.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Not 10.0.9.

10.0.9 works just fine.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

10.0.9 works just fine.

You said latest version and 10.0.9 is not the latest version. It's best to have the latest version anyway.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You said latest version and 10.0.9 is not the latest version. It's best to have the latest version anyway.

There is no difference between the alpha and 10.0.9 as far as Kindle for PC is concerned.

[meghane_e]

Headache saving tip:

Like everyone, I'm scrambling... Two of my older books aren't converting correctly. They're not even on Amazon's active site anymore. I'm using deDRM and an old device.

I finally ran the Calibre Conversion tool using the Debug feature (I suggest directing output to path/book_name_device_type). By doing this I was able to at least verify that deDRM is working by checking that book_name_device_type/input/debug-raw.html shows the book text. This might allow you to move on to your next books instead of getting bogged down here.


Basically, the books aren't being re-assembled properly. But I'm leaving them for another day.

K4PC 1.17
Kindle 4th Gen eReader
Calibre 7.26
deDRM 10.0.9

[haertig]

It shouldn't be long before someone documents a way to download Amazon ebooks via "Kindle Cloud Reader" and your web browser. Using the network tab of the browser's build-in "Developer Console", maybe using intermediate HAR files or other data capture mechanisms. In much the same way as you can still get MP3 versions of library audiobooks (that Libby shut down after they canned Overdrive).

I predict this will be the new ebook acquisition method that replaces using Download And Transfer, outdated Kindle devices, Kindle For PC, Android hacks, and the other methods that are (were) common at one time.

Just my prediction of where things might go from here. We'll see if I'm right as time rolls on...

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by haertig

It shouldn't be long before someone documents a way to download Amazon ebooks via "Kindle Cloud Reader" and your web browser. Using the network tab of the browser's build-in "Developer Console", maybe using intermediate HAR files or other data capture mechanisms. In much the same way as you can still get MP3 versions of library audiobooks (that Libby shut down after they canned Overdrive).

I predict this will be the new ebook acquisition method that replaces using Download And Transfer, outdated Kindle devices, Kindle For PC, Android hacks, and the other methods that are (were) common at one time.

Just my prediction of where things might go from here. We'll see if I'm right as time rolls on...

Wouldn't that require that you page through the whole book to capture the data? That would be far too time-consuming.

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by haertig

It shouldn't be long before someone documents a way to download Amazon ebooks via "Kindle Cloud Reader" and your web browser.

That was possible years ago. KCR used to download books to the browser for offline viewing and scripts were available to extract them.

Amazon closed that loophole by changing KCR so that it now downloads images of pages instead of text as you read. Basically a series of screenshots. Turning that into something useful would be essentially the same as turning a scan of a paper book into an e-book. I would consider that a last resort.

[Timboli]

Originally Posted by sqdancer

I checked his github and he updated the tampermonkey script. The updated version works for me.

Thanks I'll give it a try.

I probably should have mentioned that the previous version also spat the dummy when it came across a magazine ebook, getting stuck on the resulting error dialog, so the rest of the ebooks on that page were skipped.

That may not have occurred if I had a suitable Kindle device for magazines. I only have Paperwhite and Kindle Keyboard devices. When I say suitable, I mean Amazon recognized, as I use my 10" Samsung Tablet for magazines and comics etc.

The updated script is working well, though I needed to increase the time before it switched to the next download. Previous script it was 14000, the update had it reduced to 5000.