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If you've got some Kindle books, you've likely heard that they come with Amazon's Kindle DRM, which locks your books into Kindle devices and kindle reading apps. But as a consumer, when we have already paid these files for money, why should we be stopped from reading them just because we didn't buy a Kindle but an iPad or a Kobo e-ink reader instead? This deeply hurts us. Yes?
Like the majority of the recent posts and reviews on this app, I am greatly disappointed with the developers decision to go subscription! I have been using calibre library on my laptop, and Calibre companion on my iPad and iPhone for many years having paid for. Dec 10, 2019 Adding a book to your Kindle is easy if you’ve saved it on your PC. There is an ‘Add books’ on the to right, clicking on which will open the explorer, from where you can add books to your Calibre library. You can also add books that are not natively supported by the device as you’d be working with the Calibre library rather than the device.
So if you want to read Kindle books on non-Kindle devices or apps, the perfect solution is to remove the DRM. And in fact it's also the best way to protect your purchases, helps us read our own books more freely, backup or copy, print or share kindle books with friends.
But, how to? You may have wondered this problem for a long time. Don't worry this article will introduce you 4 ways to remove drm from Kindle books. From here you can liberate your kindle books best.
First things first: Download Kindle books
To begin with, firstly I strongly recommend you get your kindle books prepared on your computer. If you have the Kindle e-ink device, you can just download Kindle books via your Kindle device. If you do not have Kindle device, you have to install Kindle App(Kindle for PC/Mac desktop, or Kindle Cloud Reader web app). Launch the Kindle app, log in with your own amazon account, then all your purchased files in kindle store would be synced. Choose those files you want to deal with, double click on book cover, then downloading begins. Once you have done that, you can close the app, find your downloaded books files at destination folder (kindle content folder location).
Still failed to download the Kindle title? Look at these 7 solutions when Kindle books won't download.
Method 1: Remove DRM from Kindle books with Calibre Plugin
Calibre is an excellent ebook library management tool, open source software, helps you remove drm from books and convert format to others.
Step 1 Install Calibre.
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Install Calibre onto your computer if you haven't already get them installed.
Then download the latest DeDRM-tools. It comes as a .zip archive, but there is no need to unzip it, just open it up and put the 'DeDRM_calibre_plugin' folder where you can find it.
Step 2 Install Calibre DeDRM Plugins.
Run Calibre on computer (here takes mac as an example, remove DRM from Kindle books with calibre mac).
From the pref pane 'Preferences'--'Change calibre behavior'.
( Note: Do not click “Get plugins to enhance calibre”).
Click on Plugins (under “Advanced”) --'Load plugin from file'.
Select the 'DeDRM_plugin.zip' file you placed in step 1 and click 'Open'.
Click on the “Add” button, 'Yes' in the 'Are you sure?' warning dialogue that appears.
After succeed the plug-in has been installed. Calibre will add this plugin under its 'File type plugins' list in the Preferences window, OK. Restart Calibre please.
Step 3 Import DRMed books to Calibre.
If your kindle books are downloaded via Kindle desktop app, import your downloaded Kindle books to Calibre, then the DRM will be removed automatically. But if you've previously added books to calibre that with drm, you'd better import them again. Job done, you can click 'click to open' at the right side, to get a preview in calibre library.
If your kindle books are downloaded via Kindle eReaders, you should customize the plugin and input the KSN info.
Update: (Due to a change in DRM) Calibre DeDRM plugins will no longer work with Kindle for PC/Mac version 1.25 or newer or with Kindle firmware 5.10.2 or newer.
Method 2: Remove DRM from Kindle books with Python Scripts
Notice: This method is a little hard to use, so if you are not so familiar with computer or code, I don't think challenging this way is a wise choice.
Nearly all the eBook DRM Removal softwares are Python scripts, including Calibre.
Step 1 Install Python at first.
Firstly you need Python installed on your computer.
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Step 2 Install Pycrypto.
Pycrypto is a basic DRM module that all the DRM removal tools are using. Download and install it please.
For Win: pycrypto-2.1.0.win32-py2.6.exe
For Mac: pycrypto-2.6.1.tar.gz
Step 3 Run KindleBooks.pyw.
Run KindleBooks.pyw, then input the information related to Kindle Books: input file, output file, and Kindle.info. As your kindle ebooks has been downloaded to your computer via Kindle for PC/Mac, so it is easy to find the Kindle.info, because it will be created when the desktop application installed.
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Method 3: Remove DRM from Kindle books with Shareware
This method is applied to both beginners and experts. And I highly recommend you get it with a free trial. I do believe after you tried it, you will fall in love with her.
Step 1 download the powerful shareware Epubor Ultimate for PC or Mac to your computer.
Step 2 Run Epubor Ultimate.
Then the kindle books downloaded via Kindle for PC or Mac will be displayed under Kindle column in the left sidebar, while the Kindle books downloaded via Kindle devices will be displayed under Kindle Device column in the left sidebar after connecting Kindle e-ink reader to computer.
Step 3 Rip the Kindle DRM.
Add the Kindle books from the left sidebar to the right main window. Then all the books will be decrypted immediately.
Failed to remove DRM from Kindle for PC/Mac (.azw) 2018
Kindle for PC/Mac version 1.25/1.26, can't decrypt drm from kindle azw.
Amazon changes its drm scheme since it released Kindle desktop version 1.25(and above) and Kindle firmware 5.10.2(and above). For now we can't directly handle those new kindle kfx books unless we Downgrade Kindle for PC/Mac to Older Version.
It uses python scripts but much more easily to operate than method 2.
It provides more friendly interface than calibre. Of course it's also easier than calibre to learn how to use.
Method 4: Remove DRM from Kindle Cloud Reader
Yes, this is true that now you can remove Kindle DRM from Kindle Cloud Reader--Epubor KCR Converter.
I should say it's not a DRM Removal tool, but a converter which helps extract Kindle Cloud Reader chrome cache files and then convert them to AZW3/Mobi/ePub/PDF format.
Requirements are as following.
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- Use Chrome browser to visit Kindle Cloud Reader and log in.
- Click the book cover to open this book. A downloading process will soon appear in the bottom-right corner showing the progress. Do not exit the current page until this Kindle book has been downloaded.
- After the book is downloaded completely, start Epubor KCR Converter to convert kindle books to DRM-free PDF, EPUB, MOBI or AZW3.
The only requirement is you should ensure that your kindle cloud reader books have been downloaded successfully on Chrome browser.
It deserves your trial if you don't want to use Kindle desktop app. What's better, as this tool helps extract kindle books directly from Kindle cloud reader, so it helps get around Kindle 1.25 perfectly. No need to worry about the new Kindle KFX and new DRM any more. It's the best and only effective Kindle DRM removal mac for macOS 10.15 Catalina users.
Ada Wang works for Epubor and writes articles for a collection of blogs such as ebookconverter.blogspot.com.
Calibre is a complete e-library management system. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works well on Linux, OS X and Windows. Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.
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Platform: Mac OS X 10.5 / 10.6 / 10.7New Features:
- ODT metadata: Read first image as the metadata cover from ODT files. Also allow ODT authors to set custom properties for extended metadata.
- E-book viewer: Allow quick saving and loading of viewer settings as 'themes'. Closes tickets: 1024611
- Ebook-viewer: Add a restore defaults button to the viewer preferences dialog
- E-book viewer: Add simple settings for text and background colors
- E-book viewer and PDF Output: Resize images that are longer than the page to fit onto a single pagerestart calibre. Currently only works when going vie Preferences->Plugins->Get new plugins
- Add an entry to save to disk when right clicking a format in the book details panel
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New news sources:
- Dziennik Polski by Gregorz Maj
- High Country Blogs by Armin Geller
- Philosophy Now by Rick Shang
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Bug Fixes:
- KF8 Output: Fix bug where some calibre generated KF8 files would cause the Amazon KF8 viewer on the Touch to go to into an infinite loop when using the next page function. Closes tickets: 1026421
- News download: Add support for tags that link to SVG images. Closes tickets: 1031553
- Update podofo to 0.9.1 in all binary builds, to fix corruption of some PDFs when updating metadata. Closes tickets: 1031086
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