Dealing with Kindle ebooks in calibre

[texasnightowl]

Originally Posted by DahliaRose

Okay so I got my Kindle Paperwhite. And I attempted to break the drm on one of the books I bought and it still comes up saying cannot convert...

I added dedrm and the kfx plugin but it doesn't seem to have worked.. Anyone know why?

I haven't updated the kindle since getting it, it's on v5.12 and the books are shown in calibre as kfx-zip.

What do I do?

which version of dedrm? did you follow instructions to add your serial number to the dedrm customization? For info on that, read the DeDRM_plugin_Readme.txt at https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/tree/master

[DahliaRose]

Originally Posted by texasnightowl

which version of dedrm? did you follow instructions to add your serial number to the dedrm customization? For info on that, read the DeDRM_plugin_Readme.txt at https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/tree/master

The serial number was what I was missing. Oops. Works fine now. Stupid me.

[sirus]

After the recent events I found my kindle 10 and wanted to try method 3 but failed. It seems that calibre only reads the outermost kfx file which is less than 1mb, and when I import by adding a folder, it imports the outermost kfx, metadata and the first kfx file in assets/attachables, which are all small as well.

I installed the kfx input and output plugins, installed dedrm and filled in the serial number, they are all up to date. kindle system version is 5.12

I wonder why calibre won't import the full file?

[texasnightowl]

1. what version of dedrm did you install?

2. how are you adding the book? are you dragging and dropping it from windows explorer into Calibre or did you, in calibre, click on the device button to view the books on your kindle and right click on the book and tell it to add to library?

fwiw, I am able to add books from all 3 of my kindles (K5, Oasis 3, PW5).

[texasnightowl]

Originally Posted by sirus

...I found my kindle 10 ... kindle system version is 5.12

also...this doesn't seem right. an updated 10th gen Kindle would be running 5.18.1. 5.12 would be a K7 or PW2? Though I will admit I don't know what firmware was on a K10 at first release.

[sirus]

Originally Posted by texasnightowl

also...this doesn't seem right. an updated 10th gen Kindle would be running 5.18.1. 5.12 would be a K7 or PW2? Though I will admit I don't know what firmware was on a K10 at first release.

You're right, 5.12 was before the update, now it's 5.18.1, I misremembered. the version of dedrm is v10.0.9.
I tried the way you said to click on the device in calibre, and also tried add from folders and sub-folders in the add books button in calibre, but dragging and dropping it directly from windows explorer I didn't try

[texasnightowl]

Originally Posted by sirus

...the version of dedrm is v10.0.9.
I tried the way you said to click on the device in calibre...

So...I guess I'm unclear from your original post...what exactly happens?

Does the book get added? I mean, ebooks are small? The book I just read is only 0.56mb in Calibre. So the book being small is not an issue by itself. Does the book get added and is is dedrmed...ie., can you convert it to epub?

[sirus]

Originally Posted by texasnightowl

So...I guess I'm unclear from your original post...what exactly happens?

Does the book get added? I mean, ebooks are small? The book I just read is only 0.56mb in Calibre. So the book being small is not an issue by itself. Does the book get added and is is dedrmed...ie., can you convert it to epub?

I didn't write it clearly, I opened the kindle folder with the books in it and found that each book will have a kfx file and a sdr folder, when I add a book to calibre, it will only add the kfx file that I mentioned.

This confused me, I was adding books that were tens of mb in size and only getting a file that was tens of kilobytes, while the main content of the book in the sdr folder is not being added. And when I convert it prompts drm present.

So I checked the thread and tried to add the book by adding the whole folder, but the result was pretty much the same, which is what I said in my original post.

It looks like I did the same thing as method 3, testing with books published in February and earlier, but it still failed.

I checked the log afterward and the file says “Unknown booktype kfx. Passing back to calibre unchanged”. I'm not sure if it's a dedrm failure or something else that's causing this problem

[pdurrant]

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