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It's been a while since I had to convert Kindle books, but the last time I did - Calibre was the way to go.
It's a complete collection manager too so you can edit metadata, cover art, format and so much more.
It's definitely intimidating when starting out, but well worth it.
Thank you. I have heard about Calibre before and got a bit spooked by the complexity of the process. π€
If you want to make it easy, just go to libgen.li, download the books without DRM and it's off to the races....
Likely illegal (depending on where the post author lives).
I live in the EU country and would prefer a legal way to save my purchased books.
Did you purchase a book or a license?
These days you could also fire up the book in the kindle app and tell an AI to OCR each page, saving the result in ePub format.
I ducking hate today's tech.
I wonder if we could jailbreak Amazon's shitty ai to do it. If they gave us the text themselves then it's not piracy. What a revelation!
If Calibre is complex then just desist.
Thanks. Would this work on Linux, too?
Not sure, don't see why not. I'm not smart enough to use Linux
Nah, you don't need to be all that smart. You just gotta be willing to spend time learning. It's not even all that difficult as long as you don't get too hung up on the old Windows or Mac way of doing things. There are some great beginner friendly distros these days, and they tend to work pretty well without too many issues for most people. If you do have issues, there are chats, typically on IRC, where you can ask for help, and google can go a long way if you're decent with it.
Right on, I might try a dual boot on my laptop and give it a try
Dual booting is definitely a good way to start. If you lack hard drive space or want to test out distros before picking one to settle on for a while, many are capable of booting off a live CD or flash drive without installation. You might not be able to settle in quite as well without installing, but for quick tests and comparisons, it can be handy, and it makes no change at all to your PC until you commit to installing it properly.
There's a looooong thread on mobileread forums about how to do this. Amazon changed their ebook format a year or two ago to make it harder to remove the DRM, but someone usually comes up with a new way to do it every time Amazon tries to foil them.
This is the thread I have bookmarked -- I haven't kept up with it all since I quit Kindle back when they removed the "download & transfer" option to let us save our own purchased property. But I think their newest format has been figured out now, so if it's possible to do, the instructions should be in that thread.
This is an interesting discussion. Thanks.
You need to remove the DRM from the books. I've heard Caliber can do this.
I second Calibre.
I used to know of a plugin, years ago, that would remove all DRM from ebooks at the time of import into Calibre
DeDRM!
You can jailbreak the kindle and install OSS on it. For example KOReader. https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/index.html
You can use dedrm plugin in calibre to remove the DRM on your ebooks. You just need to download them on your computer, like using an old version of kindle.
If you want to buy more recent ebooks, as someone else said, the DRM cannot be removed now, so you should download them from kobo if you want to still be able to download and remove DRM.
What open source reader are you using? I'd love an open source device to replace my Kobo, but the only option I ever found when I looked was basically to use an Android app, and that's not really what I hoped for.
(Not OP)
I think Kobo is not too closed, is it? Not saying it's open source, but not hard to install KoReader or other stuff it may support.
I have a PocketBook reader, more specifically a pocketbook touch hd 3.
When plugged into a pc the thing seems open source but I am not sure if everything it runs is visible there. Installing KoReader on by device was just a matter of copying 2 folders to specific places in the existing hierarchy, and not a single file replaced a previously existing one.
This is an older device, I hope newer ones are still as open as this one seems to be.
I don't expect to need to buy another e-reader anytime soon but Kobo would be on my radar if I would.
What is wrong with yours?
I'd just prefer something genuinely open. I can and did put KOReader on my Kobo, but it still runs its own proprietary firmware or OS or whatever. That's probably based on or built on top of something open like a Linux kernel, but a proprietary layer still sits on top
I've been considering getting... I think it's the Pine Note? It's from Pine64 and is supposed to be a tablet with an e-ink display, but last I checked on it a year or two ago, software and driver support was still not quite there. It's all open hardware, though, so it's just a matter of the community getting it up to speed. Probably about time I look back into it, but my Kobo isn't that old, so I kinda hate to spend so much replacing it.
I absolutely adore my Kobo. I run calibre and calibre web to manage everything for it and it's been flawless for me for a couple years now.
Supposedly you canβt use Calibre to remove DRM from Kindle E-books anymore since Amazon no longer lets you download the raw files to a computer. The only workaround Iβm aware of requires you have a kindle device.
Of course you could find an alternative form of ebook acquisition
This is the most uptodate option i know of, using DeDrm/noDrm and Calibre, havent tested it myself though.
if you want a reader to access your files, grimmory is the way to go, if you need to edit metadata before doing that or you want to import them to your ereader use calibre if you dont care about them looking nice you can just dump your files in the ereader tho), if you want to automate pirating them, there isn't a very good alternative to something like radarr, but ive been playing with bindery. these are selfhosted, there's also readest for desktop/mobile.