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Originally Posted by nabsltd
There was literally one time that Calibre version mattered as far as DRM was concerned, and that was a fairly long time ago when there were some major changes. Now, as long as you are somewhere near current with Calibre (you can be an entire major version behind), DRM is not an issue. The only exception is a very few textbooks or books released in certain geographical areas. Since Calibre and NoDRM are free, it costs you nothing to learn whether the particular book you care about is a problem.
The current version of NoDRM works with all versions of the Kindle for PC application. So, the "last official working copy" is available from Amazon.
All file formats that can be imported into Calibre can have DRM removed. You might need to add plugins for the file formats.
Step by step (if this too much detail, mods, please nuke whatever is bad): - Install Calibre
- Download NoDRM plugin (Google is your friend)
- Install NoDRM plugin into Calibre (plugin install in Calibre is covered by Calibre online help)
- Open NoDRM plugin configuration in Calibre
- Follow the instructions included with the downloaded NoDRM to configure it correctly
- Download book from Amazon in some way (Kindle for PC, Download and Transfer via USB, etc.)
- Import downloaded file into Calibre
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Even if DeDRM was to stop working with calibre, there is a solution. Install the last version of calibre portable that works with DeDRM and use that to remove the DRM and then move the eBooks to your working library.
In this case, Google is NOT your friend. I just did a search and I did not find the link to the current DeDRM Git. I found linking the the ALF/Harper version. So you have to give the URL and not a Good is your friend that does not work easily enough. Google used to work perfectly well to find DeDRM, but no longer.
Also you have to tell which version to install because most would probably install 10.0.3 instead of 10.0.9.