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Old 01-19-2017, 01:55 AM   #16
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Anyone needing Kindle for PC 1.17 should use the links in the post mentioned by jhowell.
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Old 01-30-2017, 12:42 PM   #17
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One of the commenters on the Teleread story I wrote about this issue said that Calibre had added KFX support in 2015, and accused me of spreading "fake news." Can anyone shed any light on this?
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Old 01-30-2017, 12:50 PM   #18
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Calibre recognises KFX as an ebook format, and has a plugin that can (with the help of an Amazon program) produce a sort of KFX format.

What it can't do is convert KFX to any other format, nor can it cope with the multiple-file KFX format downloaded to Kindle for PC and later Kindles.

I've commented at Teleread. What an idiot.

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Old 01-30-2017, 12:55 PM   #19
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Calibre version 2.40.0 (2015-10-02) added support for reading the unencrypted metadata from books on e-ink kindles in KFX format. From the release notes:

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Kindle driver: Detect books in Amazon's new KFX format present on e-ink kindles.

Note that this only detects KFX books and allows you to delete them. You cannot copy them to your calibre library. Doing so would be pointless anyway, as KFX books are specialised for individual devices. Instead go to your 'Manage my content' page an amazon.com and download them from there -- this will give you a regular azw3 file you can add to calibre.
There continues to be no support in calibre for converting KFX to other formats. There are also no tools that can deal with KFX DRM. (And all KFX books from Amazon come with DRM.)

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Old 03-30-2017, 02:57 PM   #20
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Thanks everybody for sharing your solutions. I could install Kindle for PC previous version (1.17) and redownload two books bought recently wich I could not previously add to Calibre, as you said before in this forum. so this worked with this one ebook (azw extension in a folder). But Ii didn´t work with the other. This one book was downloadad to a folder in "My Kindle contente" folder, and consists of seven files and an empty tmp folder. This files are:
CR!86GAQEYRMN59V51WKJW1DEDSAER0.azw.res (6813 kb.)
CR!WNRSCQWE5S51NF20J740FH9DQN0T.azw.res (2674 kb)
CR!WVRNJZCGP97PF89X871G9K719JMN.azw.md (2265 kb)
B01N9HZKD8_EBOK.azw (1495 kb)
amzn1.drm-voucher.v1.a3660911-d573-4758-9947-b9e8af68a96e.voucher (2 kb)
B01N9HZKD8_EBOK.mbpV2 (1 kb)

The last one is named after de folder wich contains it.
None of these files can be opened by Calibre. Can anybody guess if there is a way to open it with Calibre so I can convert it to another format?
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Old 03-31-2017, 05:03 AM   #21
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KFX files

Hi Guys

I'm getting the issue with KFX files not being readable by Calibre.
The pop-up recommends downloading to computer for transfer by USB, but when I do this it still comes down as a KFX file to the computer.

I there ANY way around the KFX issue??

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I'm getting the issue with KFX files not being readable by Calibre.
The pop-up recommends downloading to computer for transfer by USB, but when I do this it still comes down as a KFX file to the computer.
See this thread.
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