Azw dedrm9/4/2023 ![]() Simple solution, get the 2 sets of lists into files and compare them by hand. So I decided to first figure out which books were missing from my Calibre Library as compared to the Kindle library. That requires that I know where all the book files are, know which ones have already been entered into Calibre and which ones are not yet entered. I want to have, in Calibre, a clean set of all my kindle books all without DRM as a spare backup copy. So then I backed out to what is the goal: Several hours of trying to figure out how to automate that process and I gave up. azw file by hand or create a zip file in a special format that contains all the books. There are tools to decryot and de-DRM the new files but they require that you either individually navigate to each sub folder and select the. But then I ran into the problem that the newer version of Kindle books consist of a different format and Calibre cannot import them automatically. The solution to process sub folders in Hazel works just fine. The encryption in a given file is tied to your device, so you’ll need your Kindle’s serial number to perform the decryption.OK I’m way down a rabbit hole and can’t climb out… This is a Python script which strips the DRM from an encrypted Kindle book. Stripping the DRM: ch33s3w0rm/kindle_dedrm. I’ve got a script that works now, which leans on two other tools to do the heavy lifting: I prefer solutions that use command-line tools and (ideally) run inside Docker container – they tend to be much more portable between machines. Google suggests that Calibre can do this with the right plugins, but I don’t use Calibre for anything else, and I want to install new software as little as possible. I never bought any books from Microsoft, but I do have a collection of Kindle books, and this story was a reminder to investigate ways to remove the DRM from those. They were turning off the DRM servers behind their ebook store, and refunding customers for any books they’d bought. ![]() ![]() A few months ago, Microsoft made headlines when they announced they’d be turning off people’s books. ![]()
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