If you do not know what it is, DRM is a kind of invisible lock that not only allows you to read your eBook on other electronic devices, but to also delete them at any time; therefore, the books purchased on Amazon and other websites may be called 'rented' instead of 'purchased'.
Calibre can be used to convert kindle books to PDF by installing a plugin called DeDRMtools. You'll need the serial number of your Kindle device.As far as I know this only works with books you've purchased and if you own a Kindle.
If you want to strip your eBook, you've come to the right place! OneHowTo.com offers you a step-by-step guide on how to remove DRM from Kindle Books:
- Ars used Calibre, an open-source freeware app, and the DeDRM plugin to convert all these e-books from Kindle format to iBooks.
- Part 1: Calibre DeDRM Plugin Will Remove DRM From? Kindle ebooks (Files from Kindle for.
- Any eBook Converter is a professional eBook tool that can remove DRM from Kindle, Adobe, Kobo & Nook eBooks and convert them to DRM-free EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, KFX or TXT format in batch.
The first step to remove DRM from Kindle books is to click here to download Calibre; it's simply an eBook manager, but without it, you will not be able to remove DRM. We also will need to install these plugins.
Next, unzip all the files that you've downloaded on your desktop and let's get started on them!
Run Calibre on your eBook and click on 'Preferences'. Now click 'Change Calibre behavior', select 'Advanced', 'Plugins' and finally, 'Load plugin from file'.
Remember the plugin folder unzipped in step 2? Go to it and open 'Calibre Plugins'; there you will find several .zip files; open the first of these and select 'Add' (if you can't see this option, you'll find 'Open').
A new pop-up window will open; click 'Yes' and 'Accept' on the following one. Repeat this process until you have added all the 'Calibre Plugins' modules.
To configure 'Kindle and Mobipocket deDRM (0.4.5)', go to 'Plugins' and then 'Load plugin from file'.
If you do not find this option, you can check 'Only show user-installed plugins'.
Enter the serial number of your Kindle, select 'Apply' and finally, 'Close'.
Last step! Download the Amazon for Kindle app; run it and click on 'Archived content'. All books purchased on the website should now appear; double-click on the one you want to download.
After this, return to Calibre and select 'Add books from directories, including sub-directories (Multiple books...)'. In Mac OS X they are in a folder under 'Documents' entitled 'My Kindle Content'. Done! After importing them they will be DRM-free.
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Dedrm Kindle Book
A few months ago, Microsoft made headlines when they announced they’d be turning off people’s books. They were turning off the DRM servers behind their ebook store, and refunding customers for any books they’d bought. 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.
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 prefer solutions that use command-line tools and (ideally) run inside Docker container – they tend to be much more portable between machines.
I’ve got a script that works now, which leans on two other tools to do the heavy lifting:
Stripping the DRM: ch33s3w0rm/kindle_dedrm. This is a Python script which strips the DRM from an encrypted Kindle book. The encryption in a given file is tied to your device, so you’ll need your Kindle’s serial number to perform the decryption.
It runs in Python 2, no dependencies required:
It creates a DRM-free AZW file alongside the original file.
Converting AZW to EPUB: ebook-convert.
The AZW format is Kindle-specific; if I read my books on anything else, I need to create a copy as an EPUB.
There are online converters that take an AZW and return an EPUB, but I feel uncomfortable doing file conversion via a third-party service.
You can do this with the Calibre GUI app, or its bundled command-line tool, ebook-convert. The latter lets you convert ebooks between formats in a script, and that’s what I really want. I found a Docker image that includes Calibre, and I override the entrypoint to invoke the command-line tool:
And now I have two copies of my book: an AZW to use on my Kindle, and an EPUB to use everywhere else.
Dedrm Tools Calibre Plugin
My script has a couple of extra pieces to upload the files to my ebook manager, which are very specific to my setup – the software I’ve linked above is more general, and hopefully a useful starting point for anybody else who wants to strip the DRM from their Kindle books.