Have you ever found that you paid for a Kindle book but you can’t read it on any device with any app you like? Have you ever complained that you paid for a Kindle book but you can’t share it with your family or best friend? Have you ever been frustrated for paying for a Kindle book but you can’t print some pages you need to paper? Reset Tool Epson Px700w Drivers there. All these are caused by the DRM (Digital Rights Management), it is adopted by online eBook retailers to bind consumers with their own device or app, and the target is pretty clear, the market share. In fact, DRM brings consumers no benefits but inconvenience. Why Remove Kindle DRM?

• To read the book we paid for on any device or app we want, not only on Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire and Kindle app. • To share with our family or best friend. When we buy a paper book or DVD disc, it’s totally OK to share with our family or friends, why it becomes impossible for Kindle books? • To make this book 100% owned by us. You might not have realized that in fact you are just “renting” a Kindle book, Amazon can make this book no longer owned by you even without informing you. In other words, only by removing DRM you can make a safe backup for purchased Kindle books.

• Print the pages out as we want. We are not just buying fictions from Amazon, sometimes we also buy textbooks or reference books, like recipes. Therefore, printing some specific pages to paper for better usage is a pretty normal and reasonable demand. A True Story This story happened in 2012 and was reported by The Guardian, New York Times, and some other authoritative media.

Here I am telling the story in brief if you do not want to read. There is an Amazon consumer called Linn, one day she received an email from Amazon.co.uk and told her that “her account is directly related to another which has been previously closed for abuse of our policies”, and the staff from Amazon didn’t want to reveal more details about the “previously closed account” or how they link the accounts together. As a result, Linn’s account is revoked and all her purchased Kindle titles are gone, without refund or anything compensation, the most pity part it, Linn even couldn’t get the real reason why this happened to her. This is why I said at the beginning at this post, we are just “renting” eBooks from Amazon, instead of truly owning the items we are paying for. What if Linn had removed the DRM from her Kindle books and made back-ups, maybe her account would still be revoked, at least she would not losing those books she had paid for.

Jan 16, 2011 - Jacobsor sez, 'This post provides a 'how to' guide for a simple way to remove DRM from Kindle, Nook and other ebook files using the open-source Calibre application in conjunction with some third-party plugins. I tried it on my Kindle library, and it works great, without needing to muck about manually with. The ONLY free and online Kindle DRM Removal. Step 1: Find your Kindle Serial Number(KSN) and input it into this online tool. 1) Tap 'Menu' icon at the home screen.

Remove DRM doesn’t Equal Piracy As a summary, we have enough reasons to remove DRM from the books we bought, and we do not do this for piracy, but just for safe backup and the rights to enjoy the books anywhere. Free Kindle DRM Removal Calibre is a personal eBook library management software and also be famous for eBook format conversion. By default, it is not able to remove DRM, but with a Plugin called DeDRM tool, we can achieve our goal. In I’ve explained in details about how to get this DRM Removal plugin, so please read it and install the plugin to Calibre, there is no need to repeat the steps in this post again.

In following parts, I am going to introduce 3 ways to remove Kindle DRM. Quick Accesses: • • • Method A: Remove DRM from Books Synced via Kindle for PC/Mac This is a universal method, as long as you are using Windows or Mac computer, you can use this method, and it is the most reliable way. Download and Install Kindle for PC/Mac Software Update on Mar. 5th, 2017: If you’ve updated Kindle for PC/Mac to version 1.19 and later, you may get books downloaded with.kfx format. At the moment, no tool can remove DRM from.kfx books or convert them. The solution is installing, with the old version you can still download books with.azw format.

Update on Oct. 27th, 2017: The software is now able to help you remove DRM from KFX books directly and losslessly. You can buy this software with 20% off here: • • Login with Amazon Account and Sync Books to Computer As I am using a Windows 7 computer, so I will take PC as an example. The steps on Mac are exactly the same with PC. When you run the program at the first time, it will ask you to register. In this step please register the program with your Amazon account which is used for buying Kindle eBooks. Then you will see the program like this.

• All Items: All the books in your Kindle library, both the cloud library and local library • Downloaded Items: The books you already synced to local computer • Archived Items: The books saved on your Kindle cloud library which hasn’t be downloaded to local So look at All Items, and sync the books to local computer. For example, I download three books to my computer. Find the Downloaded Kindle Books in Computer Now click “Tools” –>“Options” And switch to “Content” tab, we can get the folder saves the downloaded books.

Opening this folder we can see the files. The books synced via Kindle for PC/Mac always have the extension name “.azw”.

The others are temporary files to record our read position, highlights, etc. I will write another post about these files in the future. Use Calibre DRM Removal to Handle the Books Before loading these books into Calibre, please make sure. Update on 2017.3.14: If you fail to remove DRM on AZW4 books, please download this instead the original one. It’s specially modified to deal with AZW4 books. Now launch Calibre, and directly drag these files into Calibre. You will see a progress bar like this.

The DRM removing is processed at the same time, but you can’t see the details. To check the DRM removing result is simple.

• In most cases, the book format will turn to.AZW3 or.MOBI after removing DRM, while the file format was.AZW before the process; • Click on the file format (in this case AZW3), then you will be able to read this book by Calibre’s built-in book reader module. For DRM-protected books, clicking on the file format you will see a warning dialog tells you the book is DRMed.

No the Kindle book is DRM-free, you can safely make backup, convert formats to enjoy on any reader/app, or print some pages for education/working purpose. Method B: Remove DRM from Books Downloaded to E-Ink Kindle Device E-Ink Kindle Device means the Kindle Reader which can only let you read books, like Kindle Touch, Kindle 5-Way Controller, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Voyate, etc. Not including Kindle Fire tablets. If you have got an E-Ink Kindle, then you need not install Kindle for PC/Mac client. Things are a bit easier than method A. Find Kindle Serial Number of Your Kindle There are two ways to find the Kindle Serial Number: • Check device information on Kindle; • Find it on Amazon website. If you choose the first method, just click “Gear icon” on Kindle’s homepage, choose “Settings”.

Then click “Gear icon” again, choose “Device Info”, then you will see the Kindle Serial Number. And I prefer the second way, as we will need to input the Kindle Serial Number(KSN) into Calibre later. Obviously directly copy from the web page is easier.

First, visit Amazon official website, move the mouse to “Your Account” then you see the drop-down menu, choose “Manage Your Content and Devices”, in old days it’s called “Manage Your Kindle”. Then switch to “Device” tab we can see the Kindle devices/apps registered with this Amazon account. Choose the correct item then we can see the “Serial Number” just like the image below. Connect Kindle to Computer You can keep the web page there, then please connect Kindle to the computer with USB cable. If you haven’t installed the Kindle DRM Removal plugin into Calibre, please.

Open Calibre to Remove DRM from Books Saved in Kindle Now run Calibre, and add the books saved in Kindle device into Calibre. Unlike the method A, for books directly loaded from Kindle device, Calibre Kindle DRM Removal cannot remove the DRM silently, you need to manually customize some setting. First please go to the plugin list and find the DeDRM plugin, and click “Customize plugin”. Choose “eInk Kindle ebooks”, then click “+” icon and input the Kindle Serial Number we found on Amazon web page at step one. Notice: when paste the Kindle Serial Number into plugin, please delete the space, just put all characters together. Now we can add the books from Kindle into Calibre, the Kindle DeDRM plugin will process them. Check the result by reading the book in Calibre.

Method C: Remove DRM from Books Downloaded on Android Device This method is not recommended, as it is more limited and complex than the other two methods: • It requires a low version of Android: 4.0 -4.4 • You must install a special version of Kindle for Android app • You need to manually input many digits into Kindle DRM Removal plugin and try several times Then why we need this method? Because in some countries Kindle for PC/Mac is not available, like Japan. And not everyone who buy books in Amazon store has an E-Ink Kindle.

But Android device is pretty common. These people need an alternative way to remove Kindle DRM. Update: Since 2015.01.31, Amazon Japan starts to provide Kindle for PC/Mac client, Japanese users can use the Method A to remove Kindle DRM instead of the complex Method C. Please read the 3 requirements above carefully, if you are sure you want to do this, then go on reading the following parts. Install Patched Kindle for Android App This method requires you to install a patched version of Kindle Android app, the patch helps you get the PIDs list.

PID is the key for removing Kindle DRM. Notice: if your device’s Android version is higher than 4.4, the app may crash every time when you open it. Download Books via Kindle for Android and Check the PIDs Login your Amazon ID and download purchased Kindle books to computer, open some books and slide some pages. Then go to “Info — About — PID List” to check the PIDs. Do remember to open some books, only in this way the PIDs will be generated. Find the eBook Files in Your Android Phone/Tablet Some Android phones and tablets are running heavily customized Android system, some of them even limit you from browsing the storage folders.

In this way we need a powerful file explorer, ES File Explorer is a good choice. This app is available in most of Android App market, if you cannot find it, click the button below to download the.apk file and install it on your Android device. The Kindle books downloaded to Android device are saved in “ [Device’s storage root]/Android/data/com.amazon.kindle/files/”. And the files always have the extension name “.PRC”.

Process the Books with Calibre Kindle DRM Removal Plugin Find the plugin in Calibre’s plugins list, and click “Customize Plugin”. Unlike the method B, don’t input the PIDs in “eInk Kindle ebooks” option. Instead, click “Mobipocket ebooks”, and input the PIDs one by one.

Then add the books from your Android device to Calibre, just like the other two methods, the books will be DRM-free after loading finishes and displayed in Calibre’s library. If you fail to remove DRM from a book, please run Kindle for Android app, open this book and slide some pages, then check the PIDs. As the PIDs may change when you open different books.

A deadly easy-to-use eBook Converter If want more information, please visit their. Assuming you are on the Windows or Linux platform (Mac users get their own application), double clicking on DeDRM_Drop_Target.bat should open up a GUI where you can select your book to “decrypt” and set preferences (i.e. Kindle Serial Number). If you are selecting a book from Kindle for PC, it should automatically grab a decryption key from the program and you will not need a serial number.

Keep in mind that this only works for books downloaded using Kindle for PC 1.17 and older generation Kindle devices because DeDRM does not support the KFX format that Amazon is using as of currently. The decrypted file should be in the directory of the original file. • Pingback: () •.

If you’ve ever bought an ebook from Amazon, you’ve likely heard that it comes with Amazon’s proprietary DRM that locks it into the Kindle platform (for more info about DRM see ). The only way to read Amazon’s ebooks on a non-Kindle device or app is to remove the DRM.

This may sound difficult at first, but it’s actually a surprisingly simple process. Basically all that you have to do to remove DRM from Kindle ebooks is install the Kindle for PC program on your computer, along with a free program called Calibre that is an extraordinarily useful tool for managing your ebook library, and a DRM-stripping plugin for Calibre that takes all of about 10 seconds to install.

Once that’s all setup all you have to do is import your Kindle ebooks into Calibre and the plugin will remove the DRM automatically. You can then use Calibre to convert the ebooks into other formats, such to ePub, to read on any non-Kindle ebook reader or reading app. Note that this guide is for Kindle ebooks only. Refer to this second tutorial for directions on.

Disclaimer: Removing DRM is a highly-controversial subject, and is considered illegal in some countries, including the US and Canada. I’ve been hesitant to post how to guides for removing DRM because I do not condone piracy in any shape of form. This guide is intended solely for those that choose to take responsibility for removing DRM from their purchased ebooks in order to have greater control over their purchased content. Removing Kindle DRM Guide Please note that these directions are based on using a Windows 7 PC.

These same tools will work with other versions of Windows as well as Mac, but the directions may differ slightly from the ones below. First you need to install Kindle for PC and Calibre onto your computer if you don’t already have them installed.

• (use this version, not the Windows 8 app—it won’t work for this) • Note that you don’t have to use the Kindle for PC or Mac programs if you don’t want; you can simply choose the download ebook option from your Amazon account to get the ebooks onto your computer. Next you need to download the DRM Removal Tools package from over on. The link is halfway down the page.

Make sure to read the note about downloading. And thank Apprentice Alf and friends for making all of this so easy:). Extract the zip file once it is downloaded.

It should be called something like 'tools_v5.6.zip'. You can check the included ReadMe_First document for additional instructions. Install the Kindle DRM-Removal plugin into Calibre by opening Calibre and then selecting 'Preferences' from the top menu (if the window isn’t all the way open you may have to hit a small arrow on the top right to expand the selection to show Preferences). From the Preferences window you need to select 'Plugins' and then choose 'Load plugin from file'. Navigate to where you unzipped the DRM removal tools and select the 'DeDRM_calibre_plugin' folder and then choose the DeDRM_plugin.zip file inside.

Like with all plugins, there’s a security risk dialogue that pops up where you have to click Yes to proceed. After installing the plugin you have to close Calibre and then restart it. Now all you have to do anytime you want to remove DRM from Kindle ebooks is import them into Calibre using the 'Add books' feature. DRM stripping happens automatically upon import, so if you already had the books loaded into Calibre this won’t work unless you delete them and re-import.

But first you are going to need to download the ebooks you want to strip the DRM from using the Kindle for PC program. It depends on the operating system of your computer where the files get stored. On my Windows 7 computer they are located in Documents >My Kindle Content. There are various file types located in this folder; you just need to import the ebook files, which have AZW in the file extension, sometimes TPZ. That’s all there is to removing DRM from Kindle ebooks! Check out this if you’d like to know more about how Calibre works and how to use it to convert ebooks into other formats and customize layout and formatting.

I have struggled all afternoon but can’t get this plugin to work. I followed all the steps for a Mac. It isn’t possible in Calibre to go to Preferences>Get plugins to enhance Calibre. This is only for official plugins. Instead its necessary to select Preferences>Change Calibre Behaviour>Plugins and then select Load plugin from file and choose the downloaded zip file. In my case this had been saved in Downloads>Calibre>Plugins. I received a message that the plug in had been installed correctly.

By selecting File Type Plugins I could confirm it had been installed. However when I went to customise the plugin (to tell Calibre what plugin to use) I got a message: ERROR unhandled exception Import error: no module named config.

It seems from this that it’s looking for a Windows file, not a Mac file. Can anyone suggest what’s wrong? An earlier version of de-DRM K4Pc,K4Mac, Kindle and Topaz DeDRM (0.3.8) didn’t work either. Please check the following: in the directory ~/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/ should be a plugin ending on ZIP Kindle and Mobipocket DeDRM.zip (and also others, if you chose so). It is important, that this is there.

If it is not, the installation went wrong, when you manually add the Plugin, chose the Kindle-Zip-File. What may went wrong is, that the final ZIP-File was also unZIPed, that is a common mistake, which is explained in the readme. Probably a re-download and installing from scratch might help. You should in Calibre select “K4MobiDeDRM_v04.18_plugin.zip” to add. Thanks for the replies: Nathan: Yes I read the Read Me although it didn’t give specific advice for Mac. I followed the steps from an earlier version. Ingo: I selected KAMobiDeDRM_v04.18_plugin.zip (233kb) and tried three times.

Each time Calibre reported “no module named config” despite the fact that the file contains “config.py”. Here is the contents of the zip file: K4MobiDeDRM_v04.18_plugin __init__.py convert2xml.py genbook.py k4mobidedrm.py flatxml2html.py stylexml2css.py topazextract.py kgenpids.py getk4pcpids.py mobidedrm.py config.py alfcrypto.py kindlepid.py k4mutils.py k4pcutils.py alfcrypto_src.zip alfcrypto64.dll libalfcrypto32.so libalfcrypto64.so flatxml2svg.py alfcrypto.dll libalfcrypto.dylib subasyncio.py scrolltextwidget.py aescbc.py plugin-import-name-k4mobidedrm.txt For some reason Calibre doesn’t seem to find or unzip the config.py file. I tried importing the unzipped ‘K4MobiDeDRM_v04.18_plugin’ but this wouldn’t work. I can’t think what’s missing.

BTW I upgraded Calibre to the latest 0.9.16 version. Could that be the explanation? Since writing my post a few minutes ago, I have moved the.zip file into the Library>Preferences>calibre>plugins folder and re-started the procedure. Again it seemed to load the plugin correctly into Calibre’s plugin folder, but it won’t open an Amazon book. This time the error message is:”No key found. Most likely the correct PID has not been given.” I have also installed the Macintosh DeDRM 5.6 app which claims that it can open an Amazon book either by entering the code or dragging it onto the icon. In each case I get an error message that Amazon books begin with B and have 16 characters.

Mine begin with B and have 17, e.g. It seems the Amazon codes in a Mac download are not recognised by this DeDRM app. I have tried this (on PC) 12 times today and still does not work! After further online reading I discover many people having the same problem.possibly because amazon have changed the format from azw to azw3 which appears immune to the calibre plugin? I want to read ‘my’ books on other devices so this is very frustrating and I refuse to buy a kindle just to read (when my other tablets are quite capable) Still, I will wait for a new way of stripping the DRM, as I know many people are becoming infuriated at this rip-off! No more of my money to ‘amazon rentals’ either! Hi, I just recently got a eReader, so am brand new to it.

I had found a book that I really wanted on my eReader (Kobo) but when I searched for it, it was showing only available in Kindle and Nook. I then found all this information about Calibre and the plug-ins. I downloaded the Kindle PC program, and Calibre, as well as the plug-in, and purchased the book.

I have the book and can view it on my computer. I went through all of the steps for installing the plug-in I believe. However when I went to go load the book onto my eReader after it showed only symbols on my eReader when I tried to view the book. After I added the book to Calibre’s library I clicked ‘convert’. Is this all correct?

Or did I not install the plug-in correctly? That’s the version I’m using. It works fine for the AZW3 formatted books that I purchased back in April, but does not work for any of the 3 books I’ve purchased in just the past 2 days. I even tried completely un/reinstalling the plugin and even the main calibre program itself. Still no luck.

I tried both the download from the Apprentice Alf as well as the “Kindle Unpack” plugin listed in calibre’s “Get new plugins” list. Perhaps Amazon has recently tweaked something in the AZW3 format that is messing with the functionality of the plugin(s)? Problems persist. Installed today the 6/10/13 version 6.0.7 DeDRM. Installed 9.3.4 Calibre. Imported AZW3 files in MOBI format that had been sent to my KT but which I did not purchase on “A”.

Using USB and opening Doc files to transfer. DRM protection message persists. Tried on DeDRM via Calibre preferences at green plus sign to open Mobipocket data to enter the KT serial number and to select MOBI option. Pop-up says 8-10 characters in device but KT has 16.

Most books I have tried to import (some bought on “A”, others imported or sent directly as AZW3 files to open originally via only my KT–thus my wish to convert them so as to annotate them–another problem via “A” as I presume our notes we add to what we read are not kept intact off the KT if we entered them on “personal documents” we imported?) cannot be converted. Very few were, spot checking from my books bought via “A”. DeDRM appears to be unable to strip most of my titles, whether listed in KT files as “K Content” with a blue book icon or as a plain text icon AZW3 file. Any advice for a non-techie? I have a Sony reader and there was this one book I really wanted but it was only on Amazon, so I followed this recipe step by step after purchasing the kidle-version. I have the latest version of Calibre (Version: 0.9.40,installed today 24.07.13) and the latest tool (v6.0.7).

I got the message that the plug-in was installed successfully and restarted Calibre and imported the book-file from Kindle for PC, but it still tells me that the book is DRM, both when I try to open the book and when I try to convert it to epub. I have tried it over and over again, removing, installing, restarting and what not.

I have looked all over the internet, trying to find solutions and I have tried everything I can think of. Seems like this is a common problem for some but works fine for some. Is there anyone who might have an suggestion to what I can try or do I just have to read this book on the pc (it’s over 400 pages so I hope not)???? So the DeDRM plug-in and standalone applications only work on content downloaded for non-Android e-Ink Kindles or the PC/Mac/Android reader application. If the content is ONLY available for your Fire/FireHD Kindle (for example DC digital comics purchased via Amazon Kindle Store specifically say “Not available for Kindle Reader Application”) then there’s no way to remove the DRM from the azw3 using the DeDRM tools. The DeDRM plug-in & applications do not recognize the serial from my Kindle Fire HD. Only solution I can think of is to first see if the comics are even downloadable to an e-ink Kindle, buy a cheap used one and re-download the purchases – this time selecting the e-ink Kindle each time instead of my FireHD.

YesI know I should have checked this out thoroughly BEFORE buying the comics but it was an impulse buy. I have a Nook. Been trying to use ‘Alf’s’ DRM tool but get the following message. Calibre, version 1.15.0 ERROR: Unhandled exception: InvalidPlugin:The plugin in u’C:/Users/****/Downloads/tools v6.0.8.zip’ is invalid. I have been using Caliber portable for some time.

I was able to DeDRM my books without any problems. I recently changed libraries and loaded Caliber updates and now it will not remove the DRM.