Amazon and DRM changes

[texasnightowl]

Originally Posted by TheSmitty

** UPDATE **

I got it to work. The issue was I think that at first I pulled the files through finder directly off of the device onto my filesystem. THEN, I loaded Calibre and tried to add the files from a single directory. I just tried deleting them from my Calibre, attached the device to the computer while Calibre was up, selected the two books from the Device listing in Calibre, right-clicked on them, and chose "Add books to library," and it pulled them into Calibre as expected (other than the covers being B/W, which I can fix).

ahh. yes, that would explain it. kfx relies on supporting files such as the voucher and sdr (I don't understand the specifics) but yes, if you copied the files off but they weren't in expected folders or didn't have expected support file then they would fail. Glad you got it to work.

[hyegeek]

Originally Posted by texasnightowl

ahh. yes, that would explain it. kfx relies on supporting files such as the voucher and sdr (I don't understand the specifics) but yes, if you copied the files off but they weren't in expected folders or didn't have expected support file then they would fail. Glad you got it to work.

Still not working here. When I point to the Kindle content folder that should have everything needed, it can't remove the DRM on my DRM free books.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by hyegeek

Still not working here. When I point to the Kindle content folder that should have everything needed, it can't remove the DRM on my DRM free books.

Interesting. I tried 3 4 different ways.

1. I copied the contents of the K:\documents\Downloads\Items01 directory to a directory on my desktop so the filename.kfx files and directoryname.sdr directories were present. I used Add books and selected all the KFX files in the directory. calibre had no issue with importing the KFX files and DRM was removed. The only real issue for me was that the cover images for the KFX books were smaller and grayscale.
2. Pretty much the same as the first item but didn't copy the Items01 directory to my computer first and simply added from the directory on the Kindle. No noticeable differences from the files in the first item.
3. Switched to Device view in calibre's GUI. Selected the books I wanted, right-clicked and clicked on Add books to library. No problems other than the already noted cover image issue.
4. Loaded up BlueStacks and ran Kindle for Android. Downloaded 5 books and then copied them to a staging directory. This method yields KF8/azw3 files (the majority) with the occasional mobi file. Added to calibre and again no issues but covers for the the 5 books were higher resolution and in colour.

[texasnightowl]

Originally Posted by hyegeek

Still not working here. When I point to the Kindle content folder that should have everything needed, it can't remove the DRM on my DRM free books.

Did you make absolutely sure that K4PC did not sneaky update on you? It must be version 2.4.0. Even 2.4.1 will not work. DeDRM 10.0.9? (10.0.3 will not work.) KFX Input plugin (currently 2.22.0)?

[hyegeek]

Originally Posted by texasnightowl

Did you make absolutely sure that K4PC did not sneaky update on you? It must be version 2.4.0. Even 2.4.1 will not work. DeDRM 10.0.9? (10.0.3 will not work.) KFX Input plugin (currently 2.22.0)?

OK. That's the problem. Even though I have consistently told it NOT TO UPGRADE, it "helped" me out and I'm at 2.4.1.

Claims it did it yesterday. Must have been right after I got the books I downloaded.


P.S. I ran the disable update script this time. Let's see if that helps.