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Old 02-26-2025, 01:01 PM   #76
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I have not installed K4PC on this laptop. So if there is no advantage, I'd rather not install it.
Activate the "Windows Sandbox" feature (Control Panel->Programs and Features->Turn Windows features on or off), then install whatever version of K4PC you want in the sandbox. You can also install Calibre and DeDRM and test all sorts of combinations. Close the sandbox and everything you did is gone, and none of it affected your actual Windows install.

Or, if you want to have a real testbed, spin up a VM using Hyper-V (another Windows feature) and install Calibre and DeDRM. Then, take a snapshot. After that, install K4PC or whatever else you want. If you don't like something, revert to the snapshot and try again.
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Old 02-26-2025, 06:37 PM   #77
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For me, it's that I've always preferred the resulting EPUB from using the KindleUnpack plugin over Calibre's stock "convert" option. KindleUnpack can't seem to do anything with the KFX files.
You could try using KFX Input which seems (IMO) to do a better job of converting KFX to ePub than a calibre conversion. My only issue is that it only does 1 file at a time which isn't that big of an issue anymore since I don't purchase as many Amazon books as in the past.
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Old 02-27-2025, 04:03 AM   #78
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Activate the "Windows Sandbox" feature (Control Panel->Programs and Features->Turn Windows features on or off), then install whatever version of K4PC you want in the sandbox. You can also install Calibre and DeDRM and test all sorts of combinations. Close the sandbox and everything you did is gone, and none of it affected your actual Windows install.
Unfortunately not available on windows home editions.
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Old 02-27-2025, 08:57 AM   #79
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Or, if you want to have a real testbed, spin up a VM using Hyper-V (another Windows feature) and install Calibre and DeDRM. Then, take a snapshot. After that, install K4PC or whatever else you want. If you don't like something, revert to the snapshot and try again.
Oooh, I forgot all about the snapshot feature. Great idea!
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Old 02-27-2025, 12:14 PM   #81
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Caught me a bit off-guard pulling the D&T option early. However, Alpha with earlier Kindle version flawless for remaining items.
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Old 03-27-2025, 03:44 PM   #82
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It would be a disaster for Kobo to drop Adobe DRM for LCP.
Surely Kobo know exactly how their bread is buttered.
I shouldn't imagine they have quite the nonchalance of Amazon or flexibility.
A lot of Kobo customers would be disgruntled Amazon Kindle ones.

They wouldn't want those to think they are better off going back to Amazon.

I think their price matching policy says it all.

I'd certainly go back to buying my ebooks at Amazon if I had to, so long as DRM could still be removed. Failing that, I'd probably mostly give up on buying ebooks altogether ... exceptions would be Smashwords, BookFunnel etc and direct from an author.

In any case I have more than enough physical books and ebooks to tide me over for my remaining lifetime. So I'd just stop buying and wait things out.

I've got a huge Project Gutenberg resource, which I started collecting long before I got an acceptable ereader device.
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I have been able to get the Windows Kindle app method working. We will see if the “don’t update the app” setting holds this time. Interesting, I did not change my serial number from my paper white device, and did not update the kfx plugin or any other. It just worked. Weird. But I’m happy for the moment
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