Has anyone actually succeeded to remove DRM? I just want my books that I bought. I have Kindle books and comics, and nook books (yes, nook)
I’ve been through the online guides but so far no good. I don’t have a kindle device if that matters.
Am I better off just downloading copies from someone else who did it already?
I do it for all books I’ve purchased because Fair Use has ruled that I have a right to make copies of media I’ve purchased, for my own personal use.
Calibre & DeDRM. If these are the tutorials you’ve tried and have failed with, I can’t help you. It’s even harder with Linux, but somehow I’ve managed. You might have more luck if you say how it’s failing.
I wasn’t able to get the serial number - there is supposed to be a way to get a serial number for the desktop app, but I could never manage it.
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I’ve done this successfully, but you need to jump thru quite a few hoops. These instructions are for Kindle only. I think dedrm can cope with Nook encryption but I don’t know how to do it. It was a while ago now, but to the best of my recollection:
- Get yourself an older model Kindle. I used a Kindle 3 that I found at Goodwill for $20. You may have to rejig your home WiFi if your model doesn’t support the right version of WPA.
- Register it to your Amazon account somehow. IIRC, you have to try and fail to do it from the device, then Amazon will email you instructions.
- Install Calibre and setup the dedrm plugin. It’s pretty well documented.
- Download what you want onto the Kindle. Pretty sure you have to use the Amazon website for this because of SSL issues on the older models.
- Setup your Kindle with Calibre. This is also pretty easy and and well documented.
- Grab the DRMed books off the Kindle into Calibre.
- Run the conversion process in Calibre to remove DRM and convert to (for example) epub.
- Optional: Jailbreak your Kindle and install KOReader to get a bit more value out of the obsolete brick you had to purchase to do this. This is a whole other set of hoops.
I’m not totally sure all this still works. You’re honestly probably better off getting a Boox device and downloading stuff from Anna’s Archive or similar.
I may try this - I’ve read elsewhere that using a physical device may work when the kindle desktop app won’t
Last time I looked at this, the answer was Calibre.
Its been a while since I used a Kindle but AFAIK its still this - using Calibre + the deDRM plugin. I don’t know if linking directly to stuff here is OK so just do an internet search for github noDRM deDRM_tools and you should find the plugin you need for Calibre.
Seeing the community we’re in? It’s probably fine. Let’s hope my instance’s mods are OK with this!
Is this the plugin you meant? https://github.com/nodrm/DeDRM_tools
You need calibre with the De-DRM extension and an old version of the kindle desktop app.
Last time I tried, the old version just wont load. it forces an update and the updated version won’t seem to work.
