Dealing with Kindle ebooks in calibre

[Sirtel]

Personally, I'd just stop buying any more books if there was no way to remove DRM. I will never buy a book with an unremovable DRM. I have enough books in my calibre library to last for several lifetimes, so I don't exactly need to buy more.

But I think this scenario is not very likely. Someone would invent a way to break those stronger DRM measures.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by manicotti

Hello, is there no way to to download ebooks from Amazon if you use Linux? I just bought my first book, and I want to load it into Calibre. The only e-reader I own is an old Nook. Really sad that consumers constantly get pushed around like this.

You need an old Kindle eink.
The K3 is oldest that is workable, and has azw3 files . That's FW 3.4.3
Technically the DXG is slightly younger, but it's really an updated DX, so won't get other than Mobi. FW 2.5.8. It can't connect to Amazon now anyway.

All later Kindles are currenlty 5.x FW
A PW3 (Paperwhite 7th) or Oasis2 (Kindle 9th) both seem to be 5.16.x so may be OK with KFX. Certainly 5.16.2.1.1 works and may be last ever on a PW3.

Newer Kindles get updates, currently 5.17.x, so may fail to deDRM.

See here
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...MQC26VQQMM8XSW

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by jhowell

Almost all books on e-ink Kindles in KFX format can be processed using the latest DeDRM plugin. The text converts properly however images are often lower resolution and without color.

For those devices that use MTP the files must first be copied to a local drive before being imported into calibre. I created a pull request to avoid the need for that but it was rejected by Kovid because it significantly slowed down the detection of those devices.

The PW3 & Oasis2 seem to have stopped getting FW updates. The KFX files direct via whispernet do work if KFX input (and tick checkbox for copy from Kindle) is installed and deDRM 10.0.9 has it's ID (can copy paste from Amazon My Devices). The 10.0.3 doesn't work.

There is a suggestion Download and Transfer for USB is ending.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4488600

[DNSB]

To continue with what Quoth was mentioning, several people have seen that addition to the Download & Transfer via USB popup stating the D&T drops dead on 2025-Feb-26. I'm not sure if this is tied to the age of the device but my PW4 (10th gen) is on the list.