DRM workaround: Kindle for Android

[bizzybody]

I got the alpha release of DeDRM, updated Calibre and plugins. Installed the latest K4PC and re-downloaded my whole library.

Calibre didn't complain about any of them. Very nice. I can stop using the very slow old tablet to download books for backing up from then running through Calibre.

[yonvolt]

Originally Posted by bizzybody

I got the alpha release of DeDRM, updated Calibre and plugins. Installed the latest K4PC and re-downloaded my whole library.

Calibre didn't complain about any of them. Very nice. I can stop using the very slow old tablet to download books for backing up from then running through Calibre.

Did you have any extra steps you did to be able to read your books? I've installed DeDRM 10.0.9 and KFX Import and while Calibre can add the book to the library and pull its metadata, it can't open it or convert it to a PDF and the error calls out that it's because of the DRM on the file.

I've followed the steps that lkmiller and David outlined as close as I could, my only real concern on that front is that I for sure downloaded the 10.0.9 release candidate for DeDRM but Calibre lists the version number as 10.0.3 when I install it.

This method was what I came to after the one OP described with Bluestacks Nougat stalled because the backup step wasn't displaying a confirmation in the emulator--a few people ran into that and no one really provided a fix, I couldn't even find one elsewhere on the web.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by yonvolt

Did you have any extra steps you did to be able to read your books? I've installed DeDRM 10.0.9 and KFX Import and while Calibre can add the book to the library and pull its metadata, it can't open it or convert it to a PDF and the error calls out that it's because of the DRM on the file.

I've followed the steps that lkmiller and David outlined as close as I could, my only real concern on that front is that I for sure downloaded the 10.0.9 release candidate for DeDRM but Calibre lists the version number as 10.0.3 when I install it.

This method was what I came to after the one OP described with Bluestacks Nougat stalled because the backup step wasn't displaying a confirmation in the emulator--a few people ran into that and no one really provided a fix, I couldn't even find one elsewhere on the web.

10.0.3 won't remove the DRM. And the latest Kindle for PC (2.4.1) no longer works either - you need the version 2.4.0.