8/25/2023 0 Comments Dedrm plugin for calibre 2020![]() You will need to install calibre, and get the DRM removal plug-in separately. There is a convoluted process to getting the DRM stripped from your ebooks, but it is possible. As far too many people have noticed, even if you remove the checkmark from automatically install updates, Amazon in their "divine" wisdom can and will decide to force an update.The simple answer is no. De-register K4PC, uninstall it, install 1.17 and re-register. This will require you to right click/download each book.Īs for re-installing 1.17? I've done that several times. Otherwise, in the time between K4PC coming up and the registry value being changed, there is a chance that a book will be downloaded in KFX format. Please note that you should set a different device as the default on Amazon's Manage your devices and content. At that point K4PC (tested up to version 1.30) is ready to use without downloading KFX format files. Hitting any key does nothing but close the command windows. After K4PC gets started, you'll see a line reading "The operation completed successfully" and then "Press any key to continue". You will see a screen scrolling up with ERROR: the system was unable to find specified registry key or value every second or so. So download KFX_begone3.zip, extract the kindle.cmd file and double click on it to start K4PC. When you run it, it should remove the registry entry where K4PC stores whether or not to download KFX, start Kindle for PC (assuming it is in the default location), waits until K4PC creates that registry entry and replaces it with one that says your computer does not support KFX. It is not a Linux shell script, it is a Windows batch file. Sorry if I sound a bit dumb, but I am not one of the technically gifted. ![]() Else I'll have to stick with 1.24 for now, hoping that it doesn't go the way 1.17 did recently (that is, if you recreate it after getting rid of the bloody "forced" 1.29 update, there is apparently no way it will still recognize your Amazon account/password any more. Should I run it before opening Kindle for PC 1.29? Does it work with Windows or just Linux?Ī step-by-step explanation on how to achieve the expected result would be really great. I did download that file but unfortunately I don't know how to "make it work". And I am using K4PC 1.29 with no problems to download books from Amazon and import to calibre. If nothing else, there are portions of the code that are not easy to follow much less re-write. That work is in progress but it's going to take a while. I have no idea what technical obstacles are in the way, but I am absolutely certain that leaving open at least the possibility to run the latest operational version of DeDRM with the latest operational version of Calibre would be a very good move.Ī bit late to the party, are we? As for the issues with the DeDRM plugin, 6.8.0 was written in Python2 and calibre 5 uses Python3 which means that DeDRM needs good chunks of the code rewritten before it will work with calibre 5. In the light of this, I now have to use quite a few contorsions in order to keep this running : not only use no later version of Kindle for PC than 1.24 (people used to say 1.17 because they said 1.19 already put an end to anything being done, but with both KFX Input and DeDRM plugins, it is - mostly - manageable with 1.24), BUT I ALSO have to keep away from any Calibre update version 5.0 or later, because DeDRM just won't work after version 4.23.Īnd frankly, I think this is going in the wrong direction. So yes, I paid for the book, but no, I will not have its use limited to such or such platform or device because Jeff Bezos (or somebody else) says so (and don't ask me too hard whether I don't sometimes then, especially for books by now deceased authors, upload the EPub version to some, say, Russian site where others may stumble upon it and feel free to use it, that's something different). I for one, when I buy a Kindle book on Amazon, rush to Calibre, make it fully convertible, DeDRM it and convert it to both EPub and Mobi, then I transfer the Mobi version to any Kindle I wish and plainly delete the AZW/KFX file altogether. ![]() Let's face it: Calibre plays 100% legal (although I am 100% certain that Amazon, Adobe and the like would really, really appreciate its disappearance from the surface of the earth), but the DeDRM plugin that can be obtained on GitHub and through various channels DOES provide a very, very useful tool for those of us (many I'm sure) who can't stand DRMs.
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