I use the "overdrive.sh" script from chbrown's overdrive repo on GitHub to download the audio files, which get distributed without DRM. epub file from the "Documents\My Digital Editions" directory.įor audiobooks, those are distributed as. It takes me just a couple of minutes.įor the occasional Adobe Digital Editions e-book (.acsm file) I simply use the Adobe Digital Editions app to download and then grab the. Once you have it all set up, the process is pretty quick and straightforward. I use EPUB for my Kobo reader and MOBI for my Kindle reader.
You can then use the "Convert books" context menu for the book to export to EPUB or MOBI format. azw file in the "My Kindle Content" into Calibre, and Calibre will strip the DRM and store the e-book file under your "Calibre Library" directory. Once the Calibre with DeDRM plugin is working and accessing my Kindle app account key, I can click-and-drag the. This will drop a log file from the plugin telling you what it's trying to do and why it might have problems finding your account private key. If you want to see the magic you can restart Calibre in debug mode (under the Preferences menu, or Ctrl+Shift+R). "default_key" will cause the plugin to look for your on-disk keys in the usual location that the Kindle app drops them in your local filesystem. azw file from Amazon Kindle's web site that's wrapped with your device key for that to work). Note that you can also "Import Existing Keyfiles," and at one point I had success using a Kindle device key (you have to download an. Then I selected "Kindle for Mac/PC ebooks" and made sure "default_key" was present. azw file.Īfter I installed the DeDRM plugin for Calibre I went to "Preferences -> Plugins -> DeDrm (7.2.1) by Apprentice Alf. At that point the book that's "wrapped" with your account keys will be in a place like "Documents\My Kindle Content" as an. So after you "check out" the book via the library, the book will show up in your Amazon Kindle library. If you're really concerned you can run all this in a VM, which probably wouldn't be a bad idea. The hash of the binary checked out with hashes I found posted in forums talking about it, so I'm not really that worried about the authenticity of it. I found that version of the reader by searching online and downloading a mystery binary.
#Kindle 1.17 download calibre install#
I have Kindle reader version 1.17.0 (44170) installed on Win10, and under "Tools -> General" I have "Automatically install updates when they are available without asking me" unchecked.
#Kindle 1.17 download calibre Pc#
The Amazon Kindle PC and Mac apps store your private key to disk. The De_DRM plugin uses your own individual account private key to unwrap the book key that then decrypts the book contents. When you "check out" an e-book from your library via Amazon Kindle, Amazon will "wrap" the book encryption keys with your own individual account keys. This includes a plugin for Calibre to strip the DRM from books like the ones you get for Amazon Kindle. A user "apprenticeharper" has a "DeDRM_tools" repo on GitHub that includes a Wiki that has a lot of this info. You'll have to Duck for the links.Ĭalibre is a crazy awesome e-book swiss army knife utility.
I'll just share what I've been doing recently. I've held my opinions for decades, and I tire of rehashing them. I won't get into the ethics or morals of copyright, DMCA, licensing, and so forth.
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