11-12-2019, 08:35 AM
Remove the DRM From Amazon Kindle Books Using free Software Calibre without Viruses
Calibre Download (Windows, Mac, Linux, Portable):
Video Tutorial !!!!!!!
DeDRM Plugin:
KFX Input Plugin:
The following was written in 2018 and still available!
Sermon: Why DRM Is Bad
Like many people you own an Amazon Kindle device for reading e-books.
And like many companies that trade in digital intellectual property, Amazon includes digital rights management (DRM) software in their e-books. The stated purpose is to prevent piracy, and for that DRM is modestly effective. But DRM also inconveniences legitimate customers.
The problem here is that America's copyright lawyers figured out how to change the rules of ownership. When you buy a paperback book, its content belongs to the author, but the physical book belongs to you. You can loan it to someone, trade it, sell it, or just keep it and reread it as many times as you want. But when you "buy" a Kindle book, you're renting temporary authorization from Amazon to store the book on up to 6 Amazon-approved devices. This arrangement is bad for customers, for a number of reasons:
Any Kindle book that you "own" can disappear at any time, because of technological failure, change of license, or simple human error.
If Amazon ever abandons their Kindle business, all your Kindle books could vanish in a flash. Wait, though, isn't Amazon too big to disappear? Maybe. But Kodak, Enron, General Motors, Sears, and the Smith-Corona typewriter company were once "too big to fail" American institutions too.
DRM interferes with legal uses of copyrighted text, like satire, reuse in teaching materials, and citation in reviews or academic papers. As a one-time IT guy at a public university, I frequently battled with DRM-ed written and recorded materials that instructors or researchers wanted to excerpt. The worst offender here is DVD region encoding.
DRM-ed Kindle books are incompatible with non-Amazon book readers and software. Sure, Amazon software is supported on most platforms now, but what about a decade from now? How many people still have the equipment to read a floppy disk, VHS tape, phonograph record, or audio cassette? A lot of music, art, and writing is abandoned every time our storage technology changes to a different format, whether you're talking about reel-to-reel tapes or clay tablets. If it's important to you, make as many different copies of it as you can stand.
But DRM isn't going away, so...
To Remove the DRM from a Kindle E-Book:
(July 2017: Updated for Calibre 3 and added screenshots.)
(December 2017: Added a note about using Calibre with a Kindle reading app instead of an e-ink Kindle.)
(April 2018: As of version 6.6.0, Apprentice Alf's DRM removal tools support Amazon's newer .kfx file format. You'll also need to install the KFX conversion plugin to import your .kfx files into Calibre.)
Download and install the Calibre e-book management utility. Calibre is open-source software and costs nothing, although if you find it useful you might throw developer Kovid Goyal a few dollars. Calibre is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Download Apprentice Alf's DRM removal tools for ebooks. This comes as a .zip archive, so open it up and put the "DeDRM_calibre_plugin" folder where you can find it. (You don't need to unzip the "DeDRM_plugin.zip" file in the DeDRM_calibre_plugin folder.)
Start up Calibre and go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Plugins
![[Image: drm_step1.png]](http://www.geoffstratton.com/sites/default/files/images/drm_step1.png)
Click the "Load plugin from file" button
![[Image: drm_step2.png]](http://www.geoffstratton.com/sites/default/files/images/drm_step2.png)
Select the "DeDRM_plugin.zip" file you placed in step 2 and click "Open". Calibre will add this plugin under its "File type plugins" list in the Preferences window
![[Image: drm_step3.png]](http://www.geoffstratton.com/sites/default/files/images/drm_step3.png)
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Link to the article to read more:
Calibre Download (Windows, Mac, Linux, Portable):
Code:
https://calibre-ebook.com/downloadVideo Tutorial !!!!!!!
DeDRM Plugin:
Code:
https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools/releasesKFX Input Plugin:
Code:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=291290The following was written in 2018 and still available!
Sermon: Why DRM Is Bad
Like many people you own an Amazon Kindle device for reading e-books.
And like many companies that trade in digital intellectual property, Amazon includes digital rights management (DRM) software in their e-books. The stated purpose is to prevent piracy, and for that DRM is modestly effective. But DRM also inconveniences legitimate customers.
The problem here is that America's copyright lawyers figured out how to change the rules of ownership. When you buy a paperback book, its content belongs to the author, but the physical book belongs to you. You can loan it to someone, trade it, sell it, or just keep it and reread it as many times as you want. But when you "buy" a Kindle book, you're renting temporary authorization from Amazon to store the book on up to 6 Amazon-approved devices. This arrangement is bad for customers, for a number of reasons:
Any Kindle book that you "own" can disappear at any time, because of technological failure, change of license, or simple human error.
If Amazon ever abandons their Kindle business, all your Kindle books could vanish in a flash. Wait, though, isn't Amazon too big to disappear? Maybe. But Kodak, Enron, General Motors, Sears, and the Smith-Corona typewriter company were once "too big to fail" American institutions too.
DRM interferes with legal uses of copyrighted text, like satire, reuse in teaching materials, and citation in reviews or academic papers. As a one-time IT guy at a public university, I frequently battled with DRM-ed written and recorded materials that instructors or researchers wanted to excerpt. The worst offender here is DVD region encoding.
DRM-ed Kindle books are incompatible with non-Amazon book readers and software. Sure, Amazon software is supported on most platforms now, but what about a decade from now? How many people still have the equipment to read a floppy disk, VHS tape, phonograph record, or audio cassette? A lot of music, art, and writing is abandoned every time our storage technology changes to a different format, whether you're talking about reel-to-reel tapes or clay tablets. If it's important to you, make as many different copies of it as you can stand.
But DRM isn't going away, so...
To Remove the DRM from a Kindle E-Book:
(July 2017: Updated for Calibre 3 and added screenshots.)
(December 2017: Added a note about using Calibre with a Kindle reading app instead of an e-ink Kindle.)
(April 2018: As of version 6.6.0, Apprentice Alf's DRM removal tools support Amazon's newer .kfx file format. You'll also need to install the KFX conversion plugin to import your .kfx files into Calibre.)
Download and install the Calibre e-book management utility. Calibre is open-source software and costs nothing, although if you find it useful you might throw developer Kovid Goyal a few dollars. Calibre is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Download Apprentice Alf's DRM removal tools for ebooks. This comes as a .zip archive, so open it up and put the "DeDRM_calibre_plugin" folder where you can find it. (You don't need to unzip the "DeDRM_plugin.zip" file in the DeDRM_calibre_plugin folder.)
Start up Calibre and go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Plugins
Click the "Load plugin from file" button
Select the "DeDRM_plugin.zip" file you placed in step 2 and click "Open". Calibre will add this plugin under its "File type plugins" list in the Preferences window
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Link to the article to read more:
Code:
http://www.geoffstratton.com/remove-drm-amazon-kindle-books