02-18-2023, 05:44 PM | #31 |
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02-18-2023, 05:46 PM | #32 |
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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
(For some reason this page is making me hungry...) |
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02-19-2023, 04:17 AM | #33 |
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02-19-2023, 01:04 PM | #34 |
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When Patitapetit removed the size directives for which I thank them, it would not have affected posts in which those directives were quoted before the removal.
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02-19-2023, 09:03 PM | #35 |
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Chuckle. Raises hand. I am one of those maybe two people. Because I hated Amazon changing the Kindle UI, I side loaded everything, including KU books, and then I'd go to my Kindle4Mac and jump to the end of the book so that the KU author would get credit. When I found out that that didn't work anymore, I'd scroll through a KU book while doing something else until I got bored. That petered out over time until I was borrowing only a few books a month.
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02-20-2023, 07:41 AM | #36 |
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Clever trick!
Do we get the full quality / high resolution images when doing this? Worded a different way: Does the filesize as shown on the book's page on Amz's site roughly match the output file? |
02-20-2023, 07:48 AM | #37 |
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Instead of installing Bluestacks you could just use the Windows Subsystem for Android.
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02-20-2023, 11:43 AM | #38 |
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No. You get the same version as eink Kindles get, but in color -same asthe download and transfer via USB Only K4PC or K4MAC gets full resolution.
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02-20-2023, 11:54 AM | #39 | |
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I am not an Android expert and may be missing something but I have been unable to get "adb backup" to work under WSA. It gives the message "Now unlock your device and confirm the backup operation..." but I don't see any way to do that. |
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02-20-2023, 12:19 PM | #41 |
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I receive that output from ADB but there is no pop up anywhere that I can find to accept it. ADB always exits immediately and produces a zero length backup.ab file.
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02-20-2023, 01:00 PM | #42 |
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I did some time ago. I don't remember which guide I used. Maybe this?
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-t...on-windows-11/ |
02-20-2023, 01:08 PM | #43 |
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@jhowell Alternative to doing ADB backup and importing that resulting .ab file into DeDRM plugin config window would be having a rooted Android OS emulator (easily done when using BlueStacks (via https://bstweaker.tk ), but IIRC there are also custom Windows Subsystem for Android installer images that are pre-rooted and usually also come with Play Store and other Google apps included) and copy the /data/data/com.amazon.kindle/databases/map_data_storage.db (or whatever exactly was used at the time for that particular version of Kindle for Android app, I don't recall the details only that there used to be something before map_data_storage.db) and import that into DeDRM plugin config.
As I've done when I've had this particular idea (= using old Android app to get deDRM-able book files): https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...12#post4287212 Only my testing wasn't done with as old Android app as @ownedbycats, I've tested with v7.6.0.39 (that downloads KFX files. Last edited by shamanNS; 02-20-2023 at 01:11 PM. |
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I had trouble on a Nook HD and kept getting a 0 byte file. Then I noticed the nook had a full screen diaglog that had 2 buttons at the bottom of the display, one of which was to perform the backup. This was complicated by the top of the screen by a request for the key to unlock the device encryption, which I had trouble figuring out how to specify no key. I fumbled around starting from scratch a few times and finally the "do backup" button got enabled and I tapped it, resulting in a 41 byte file. Unfortunately, I the calibre dialog to import the key failed, claiming no file selected even though I went through all the steps to import a key, including selecting the file and clicking open.
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