As I'm not distributing the book, once I've stripped the DRM, it's not any ethical slight. To that I would say, the DRM is to prevent piracy. I know the argument is that, because I am stripping the DRM, I have no moral high-ground. That seems like a silly workflow, and logically I would just stop buying books, and just start pirating books. If the argument is that it's 'easier', then I might as well cut the first part out of the equation and just download the pirated copy, right? I'm going to buy the book through some storefront, and then go download a pirated copy? I think it's a slippery ethical and logistical slope though. Obviously, I could just pirate most material, maybe even all the material in my library, or any I will ever be interested in. I just want to step in and add my own 2 cents on this subject. You have to kinda scrounge around all over the internet just to find the morsel that fixes the incorrect thing in the step. The guides explicitly tell you the keyfile is automatically generated, when it isn't. They are absolutely BOTH the wrong version of DeDRM. Guides go into great detail about which version of DeDRM you need for your version of Calibre, when both versions are infact deprecated and don't work. Guides suggest deprecated Calibre, for no reason. There is literally no mention how to get out of the authentication loop in the sign in screen for deprecated Kindle. There is literally no mention that you need deprecated 'Kindle for PC' or you are screwed from the start. I guess my annoyance with this is, that these guides are fairly recent, and all the information is bad for stripping DRM without hardware/serial. Guess what, you can now strip DRM from imported content, and convert them to epub/kepub/etc! Verify that all your plugins are not only installed, but enabled. If they are not already installed (I went through this process a bazillion times trying to figure all this out, so I might have some plugins installed that are unnecessary), install KFX Input, KFX Output plugins. You need to go back into plugins and generate a keyfile, before you attempt anything. Now if you are reading the documentation, or a guide, it will claim the keyfile is automatically created when you attempt to import. You need to go to and grab noDRM's latest build which is '10.0.2'. In fact he directs you to a fork of his project by 'noDRM'. If anyone that wrote these guides, bothered to actually read the github, the author says it no longer works and he doesn't have the time to commit to it. Guides, written bare months ago, will tell you, you need the latest version of DeDRM, which is '7.2.1'. Download and install the latest version of Calibre. Guides will tell you, you need to downgrade or install an earlier version of Calibre. ![]() Go Tools -> Options -> Uncheck Automatically update on start. You also need to prevent the 'Kindle for PC' app from updating once you close it. Most of these don't work anymore, but some of them still do. There is a drop-down menu at the bottom of the screen that says 'Default'. Once you try to open 'Kindle for PC' you will be stuck at a constantly reloading sign-in screen, because the server is refusing to authenticate the outdated client. This is the latest version that will download your ebook, with the older DRM. You need an earlier version of 'Kindle for PC', 8. ![]() I think this went unnoticed by the people making these guides, which are full of straight up wrong information on how to strip the DRM from and convert your Kindle library, when you don't own a Kindle. Hardware + serial number will always work, but getting DeDRM to actually decrypt the NEW DRM is impossible. This is because Amazon changed how their DRM works. So, most of the guides, I'm sure still work if you have a hardware Kindle and your serial number.except I'm not in that group, and the guides don't work if you are trying to follow the 'Kindle for PC' guide. Therefore I begin my investigation into how to strip the DRM so I can convert my library. I read this content on the PC, or through the Kindle app on my phone, but decided I would drop a little money on something better suited.except I bought a device, a Kobo to be exact, that doesn't support this DRM. I suspect my foray into ereaders is very late, yet I have a ton of digital ebook content from many stores.
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