The encryption in a given file is tied to your device, so you’ll need your Kindle’s serial number to perform the decryption. 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. Save the file and then install DeDRM in Calibre again. zip file and remove the code that checks for the license type. Copying PC to Kindle is easy even without a jail. Before installing the DEDRM plugin however, open the kfxdedrm.py file within the. Non jail broken Kindle to PC requires a DRM remover add on for calibre, but only for files that come.

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. The way Ive done it in the past is to use Kindle for PC 1.24 (or earlier) and both KFX Input and the DeDRM for Calibre plugins. They were turning off the DRM servers behind their ebook store, and refunding customers for any books they’d bought. So if you have say a text file from Project Gutenberg that you want to read in MS Reader, you can transfer the text to a Word document, press the Reader button.

A few months ago, Microsoft made headlines when they announced they’d be turning off people’s books.

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