Dealing with Kindle ebooks in calibre

[pypeke]

Weird!!! My old Windows 10 laptop will let me into this forum, but my Windows 11 will not. Both have Norton Security 360.

"Known Malicious website". Even when I click on "continue anyway", it will not let me.

Any ideas? I need DNBS's bat file. Thanks.

[BetterRed]

Wouldn't trust anything produced by a company that changes its name more frequently than Rupert Murdoch changes his spouse.

Norton Security 360 → 🗑️

BR

[Ma'am-I-Am]

Originally Posted by pypeke

Weird!!! My old Windows 10 laptop will let me into this forum, but my Windows 11 will not. Both have Norton Security 360.

"Known Malicious website". Even when I click on "continue anyway", it will not let me.

Any ideas? I need DNBS's bat file. Thanks.

What does this have to do with "Dealing with Kindle ebooks in Calibre"?

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by Ma'am-I-Am

What does this have to do with "Dealing with Kindle ebooks in Calibre"?

Presumably as they want to download the bat file from this message; https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...71#post4444671

[lkmiller]

There is no Nook for Mac anymore. And Nook for PC is no longer in the Microsoft app store. You can still obtain it, and it does still seem to be working for the moment. That said, I stopped buying books from B&N years ago when they killed their old desktop apps. My Nook is my favorite ereader though.

I occasionally still buy from Amazon since I have E-ink Kindles. They both have "download & transfer" and one is old enough to also decrypt books downloaded directly to it. I won't buy any more books if they cut those methods off.

I get most of my books from Kobo. I find those books the easiest to deal with.

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by pypeke

Weird!!! My old Windows 10 laptop will let me into this forum, but my Windows 11 will not. Both have Norton Security 360.

"Known Malicious website". Even when I click on "continue anyway", it will not let me.

Any ideas? I need DNBS's bat file. Thanks.

No idea why your computer is overreacting to this site. Download it on the Windows 10 laptop and move it to Windows 11. Or rewrite it on the Windows 11. Or just do the thing that the bat file does yourself. Been a while since I looked at it, but iirc it's just creating a text file with no extension with the name of the folder it replaces.

[gandoe]

Originally Posted by meghane_e

I'm finding it's not too hard to use B&N, at least this year. The app was more difficult in the past but it seems to have been worked out.

1. Buy B&N book.
2. Use the Nook app on PC/Mac.
3. Sync file (click on the bottom of the app to bring up activity bars.
4. Download book.
5. (I only know PC) Find the library location by going to ~user\AppData\Local\Packages\BarnesNoble*\LocalSta te

I know it's infinitely easier than Amazon:
Almost no books released in 2024 on Amazon seem accessible. Even when they don't have DRM, the books won't download unless it's on a more recent version of the Kindle Reading app. Books released in 2021-2023 has some that are, some that aren't.

They've also been re-releasing many books with added DRM.

Unfortunately, it appears that B&N removed the Nook for PC app in 2023, and no longer allows for new connections (even if you can find an older copy of the install program).

Too bad! I was hoping for another alternative. Currently, the easiest route I've found is to buy all books through Kobo, where it's a simple import similar to the one you outline for B&N, using the OBOK import plugin.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by lkmiller

There is no Nook for Mac anymore. And Nook for PC is no longer in the Microsoft app store. You can still obtain it, and it does still seem to be working for the moment. That said, I stopped buying books from B&N years ago when they killed their old desktop apps.

I also stopped then for the same reason.
Apache

[caulden.holfield]

Originally Posted by DNSB

In response to an PM I received about the logic of the disable_k4pc_download.bat file attached to message #84, a few comments about the batch file.

1. No, it does not actually block the download of the update. You will find a file with a name such as temp_%1%2 in the Kindle directory. The updates file prevents the creation of an updates directory where that file would be unpacked prior to installation.

Using those two variables generalizes the batch file so it does not need to be customized.

Jackie_W spotted this temp file. Create a 2nd read-only zero-length files in the same directory.

See Jackie_W's fix:

• post #4051245, message #18