Kindle books remove drm mac

I need a programming book for class. As a student, I do not have the permissions needed to install software such as Kindle reader on the PCs in college. Hi, downloading Calibre now and when it does, it isn't downloaded as a zip. So I don't have access to any of the plug ins???? I am using windows 8. Am I doing something wrong?? I don't know about a method to 'mass download' your kindle books, but I do know that in the reader app for windows, if you go to the archived items tab, you can double click on your books and it'll automatically que up and download your books.

Doesn't work. Cannot Convert. DRM Protected. Worked flawlessly!!!! So excited I'd never buy on amazon but unfortunately book I bought is amazon exclusive,so I was forced to buy it. Anyway,glad I have a copy of my book now I realise this is a fairly old article but it's still worth a comment. Erez has done a fine job explaining a method of removing DRM from Kindle books but there is a slightly different way of achieving the same result:. That's it. All your Kindle ebooks should now be DRM free so convert them while you have the chance. Any that don't convert should be removed from Calibre, re-downloaded and added again, you'll usually have better luck the second time around.

Over the last 10 years I have amassed over 8' ebooks, some from Project Gutenberg, a few free from Amazon and other retailers but all the rest of those works in copyright have been paid for and all are now DRM free. I hate to think what I would have had to spend to replace them as various eReaders have broken, worn out or when support has been removed. No, really, it isn't!

If someone can open digital content they can copy it one way or another, and they will if they are copyright pirates. They may need to take screen shots of each page and run them through OCR software or daisy-chain VCRs to record from each other but they'll do that if they have to.

DRM is all about selling you, the legitimate end user, the same content multiple times. If, when your Kindle dies, you decide to buy a Nook or Kobo ereader you will be obligated to purchase the same titles again, and again, and again. It's all about the money they make from reselling the same content to legitimate users repeatedly. The alternative is to buy another Kindle and, if you don't know about de-registering your old device, you're likely to have to pay again for the content anyway - either way the retailer takes more money from you.

The only people really affected by DRM are legitimate purchasers and users; pirates aren't affected, beyond minor inconvenience, and laugh at the people that pay for books, discs, games etc; the value of which is less than that of the pirated copies because they can only be used in certain, prescriptive, ways.

All DRM is cracked eventually anyway, except by most legitimate users. It's worth noting that there is little evidence that DRM affects the sale of ebooks, or other digital media. Those that do acquire pirated copies will usually buy a legitimate copy of their own, if they like the book. If they don't like it they delete the illegal copy to free up valuable hard drive space and, if they couldn't download it illegally wouldn't have bought it in the first place.

DRM is an evil, money-making scam that needs to be stamped out. Crack your digital purchases and make them your own but don't share them with others, simple really. Finally, my deepest thanks to Apprentice Alf for his hard work on the plug-in. You're doing good work, keep it up or send me the source code so I can continue it! I did have a problem about a year ago with Amazon deciding to delete my entire library. I had purchased my Kindle in Ireland and registered it there and purchased many of my e-books there.

I made sure that I clicked on "buy" and not "rent" like they advertise for many books. However, when I moved to South Korea for an English teaching position I found that all the books I had purchased had disappeared! Some were text books that I needed for my master's programme! After much debate they had clarified that for copyright reasons I was not allowed to take these books to Korea. I was then forced to either repurchase or find through other means my old collection.

I still have my kindle but I have de-registered it and have yet to buy anything through amazon since. So it's not that Amazon can just decide to take books away from you, but they can also dictate where you can and cannot read stuff downloaded from their website. Erez is right. It's not about Piracy, it's about owning what you buy, and Amazon's current policy forced me into a corner and forced me to do things I didn't want to do to get these books back.

So thank you for all the help Mr. You're doing a great service. You've potentially saved me a bunch of hassle and I'm sure you've done the same for others!

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I downloaded the file to remove the drm and it kept giving me zipped files so I had to keep unzipping files and then I followed all of your directions through Calibre but it wouldn't take me to the file with that filename in it. There is a file with that name, but it won't "let me" access it with the directions that you give. If I pay for something and I always do I want to watch it, read it or stuff it in a jar if I choose too. I paid for it, I should be able to do with as I please, as long as what I do with it is not illegal.

Screw DRM. Hi Erez! This is Great. Calibre is brilliant and this has now made it practically Perfect! It's a pain when you can't read Kindle books on your reader. I have a Sony E-Reader and have wanted a way to read Kindles books on it for ages. The Kindle books I have, I paid for or got them free when Amazon offered them. So for me your article is purely about getting my books onto my reader which now the conversion through Calibre is done - I can!

And very happy. I don't want to buy a Kindle as I have a reader that cost quite a bit and like I said, I just want to read all my ebooks on it. This whole process is even more complicated under Linux as I have to install an additional version of Python and some other stuff and make sure I get it all installed in the same directory as least that's how it seems under Wine. The older version of the plugin worked fine. What happened to require the update and the apparent change in how and where the plugin gets installed?

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It's all becoming clear as mud at this point. Hi there. I have followed the instructions and the books have been dragged successfully into the Calibre window and they are showing in my Calibre window as format AZW3. Is there a way I can test that they are DRM free now? You can test that they are DRM-free by converting them into another format. I believe our Calibre manual shows you how to do this: When my antivirus scanned tools v6. I think your advice to go thru the plugin virus warning as if it were trivial may not be the best advice.

I think the best advice would be to make certain that you DO scan the file for viruses before you install it. Here's why I want to de-DRM: I'm reading a textbook that I want to outline as I work my way thru it; everytime I copy and paste, PC Kindle appends a! I can then delete it, but it slows down the process. It, or course, doesn't really do anything except nag you, but multiply that nag by hundreds, over the course of the whole book, it's a real PITA!

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I should also mention that the name of the zip file that contains the plugin has changed from your original article. Great post - everything worked smoothly - thanks! We are using this to share books within our family on kindles and kobos. This is also my first look at calibre - and it seems like an amazing tool. I'll definitely be using it more often. Thank you for your help.

Everything works fine, except: I can download Alf's tools Purchased a book on Amazon today. File extension was azw3 for purchased book. The azw book converted automatically to mobi when I dropped it into Calibre i have preferences set to auto convert added books to Mobi. So thank you very much! Bought a new book from Amazon tonight. Didn't work for it. All my older books are fine as I converted them a while ago. Wondering if they have done something to update their DRM. DRM, the never-ending cat and mouse game It may very well be Amazon changed something, but it'll only hold until freedom-loving hackers update their tools.

This is a very tedious process, because you have to manually download each and every Kindle file you have in your kindle library. I'm not sure I understand the distinction? You mean, "including free files that are still DRM protected"? Doesn't work for me. Installed plugin, dragged, it seems to be doing something, ok I can view the book, but it still says the file is azw and I don't see anything else besides the book in Calibare. Where is the pdf, and how do I save into it? You need to right-click the book within Calibre and select to convert it to a different format this part doesn't have anything to do wth DRM.

Did not work for a lot of my books, mostly those with the azw extension. And yes they were all download from the same account. Hmm, maybe after breaking the DRM you could change the book titles not just rename the files, but go into the file metadata and edit the title. After following your steps and dragging and dropping onto Calibre, some get changed to mobi, some retain the azw and some changed to azw3 format.

Not sure where that decision was made, tried digging around Calibre, but I've always thought their program was more "complex" then it should be. For the books that did de-drm, I was able to edit the metadata, and change things, add cover art, etc. Thanks for the info, I'll keep trying. I certainly hope ebook DRM eventually dies out And yes, I hear what you're saying about Calibre being too complex -- it feels really bloated and complicated.

OK, just figured something out. The input profile was already on default. After doing this, one of the books that did not convert now does and is in the. Just to be clear, dragging and dropping the files onto Calibre is all it takes to de-DRM the book, I don't have to click Convert Books unless I want a different format?

Thanks again. Replying to your last because we've hit the Reply thread limit: As far as I know, yes, all you need is just to drag the book onto Calibre. Converting to a different format is important just to verify that DRM has indeed been broken unless you know of another way to tell this happened? Thanks for the article. I have been after this method for a long time. My challenge is getting the collection to adapt as the tech changes.

An additional problem is the stability of app readers, stanza is oft-crashing, ibooks has acceptable workarounds and Adobe Digital Editions is meh. I tried the Calibre method some time ago and it bottomed out, but advances have taken place and my collection is worthy of making another go of it. I have purchased my entire collection, I respect authors and researchers enough to never share or steal, losing Palm was a huge eyeopener as was the amazon purchase of mobi-but not allowing drm mobi onto Kindles was like being held hostage.

Thanks very much Erez. It worked just as you said. I live in an apartment with over 5, books of my and my family's books and we have around ebooks. I definitely prefer to 'own' those ebooks the same as the physical books. Thanks again! This worked and generated mobi files for about half my books. The other books come up "locked by DRM" when I even try to read them. Even with the plugin installed. I'm confused, because it can convert some of the kindle files. I did this with about 50 books or so and didn't get a single error They were bought with the same account, yes.

Over time, I have collected two different kindles and occasionally read from my phone. But all from the same account. So they may have been purchased on different devices. Just Next-Next-Next your way through the installer. That's a very good point! Weird, I was sure I changed it myself. I went ahead and edited that "next-next-next" reference out of the post. Absolutely not. There's a limit to how creepy and invasive corporations get to be it's constantly eroding, yes, but it's still there. On the Kindle, it looks just like any other book cover image and all, if you have the new Kindle Paperwhite.

Thanks for the workaround. Does DRM apply to nook as well, is it just books bought from Amazon or does Barns and noble do it too? This specific method is for Amazon, but I think the same ZIP file you download in the instructions above also has something for Nook. Not sure, though. Have tried this before, this article prompted me to use the updated zip file. Still not working on a couple of books DRM still intact.

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This is annoying as I bought the books to read on my wife's Kindle and she throws a wobbly when I want to access them. I know I can read them on my PC, but that's something I don't want to do, I spend enough time on it as it is. Right -- reading on a Kindle is much, much better than reading on a PC, I fully agree. Now, about your books: Does this method generally work with your books, and only these two still retain the DRM? Did you buy them using the same account you've registered Kindle for PC under?

I don't convert many, but the method has worked its just 3 books that don't respond. Yes the same registration used. Pretty interesting that just those three books balked. Not sure why. Movies are slightly easier to remove DRM from then ebooks, but the process isn't free. Both will cost you a little money, but removing DRM from video files downloaded from the likes of Amazon or iTunes is an incredibly simple process.

Alternately, you can record directly from your computer using a screen recording tool any of these five will do. You will, of course, have to wait for the entire movie since it operates essentially like dubbing, but if you already use screen recording tools it's a free option for backing up your movies.

As a few commenters have noted in the discussion, Requiem is also an excellent way to remove DRM from iTunes downloads. The process is pretty self-explanatory. Download a version of Requiem that corresponds to your version of iTunes, and open up the video files you want to remove the DRM with. While it is possible to strip away all the DRM from the content you already own, it's even better to buy from sellers that don't use DRM in the first place.



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Occasionally, you can also grab books directly from a publisher like Tor that come DRM-free, or grab older books from Project Gutenberg. The same goes for videos. Much like books, you have to go directly to a performer to get a DRM-free video. The Movie will do it. They still technically have DRM, but it's the easiest to bypass. The fact is, while piracy is certainly an issue, so is user experience. You want to pay money for something knowing you'll be able to use it in the future regardless of what device you have in your hand, and DRM often makes that hard. Author Cory Doctorow describes this problem pretty bluntly as: I really like the Apple electronic equipment, such as iPad2.

When I travel I will choose to take my iPad2. It makes reading ebook a very happy thing.

How to remove drm from Kindle books

So, removing DRM from kindle ebook is a problem that needs to be solved urgently. You love your Kindle books, but you hate the DRM protections. Then what do you do? I will tell you an easy way to remove drm from kindle books. Just look at the following steps. We have compared various methods , and finally we recommend one of the most easiest and safest way to implement solving this problem.

And it only strips the kindle drm head and keeps the books with original quality. Three steps needed, you can remove DRM protections without hassle. You can add a lot of ebooks more than 50 files.