Changing device on already downloaded Kindle books

[Graham44]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post as I only discovered Calibre a few weeks a go.

The problem I face is that I spent days (or nearly a week) downloading and editing all of the metadata for my Kindle books. When I downloaded them from Amazon to an external hard drive Amazon asked me what device I was downloading them for - I chose Kindle Voyage as that was the kindle I was using at the time (and had been for many years)

As (bad) luck would have it that Kindle started to go wrong last week so I ordered a new Kindle (Paperwhite signature edition) last week. I have registered the device but I can not now load my books from Calibre to my paperwhite as it says they are DRM protected (they loaded to the voyage fine) Im guessing this is because I specified them as for my Voyage when downloading

Is there anyway I can auto change them to my new Paperwhite (if that makes sense?) or am I stuck downloading them all again and inputting all the extra metadata again?

I understand this is a problem caused by Amazon DRM not Calibre, but Im hoping there is a solution!

[Sirtel]

You'll need to remove the DRM. For this
you must install the deDRM plugin from here:
https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools...es/tag/v10.0.9
and customize it with the serial number of your Voyage.

Unfortunately the DRM is removed on import, so you'll need to remove the files from Calibre and import them again after the plugin has been installed. You can keep your metadata - just save the files outside Calibre using the Save to Disk feature (never do anything directly in the library folder - that will mess up the database), remove the formats from book entries (this leaves the metadata intact) and add the previously saved files again to the relevant book entries.