Choose your Kindle e-Ink device, and click the button “Download”. Click the “Action” button in front of each book title, and then click “Download & transfer via USB”. Go to the Amazon page Manage Your Content and Devices. Remove DRM from Kindle downloaded via Amazon website Or if you have a Kindle e-ink device, you can take the next method. But you can still use the latest version of Kindle for Mac and patch Kindle for Mac on macOS Catalina or Big Sur to remove Kindle DRM successfully. The current solution is to downgrade your Kindle for PC/Mac to the older version and try once again.įor macOS Catalina and Big Sur users, downgrading to the older version is not working. Now Calibre cannot handle this new KFX DRM scheme.

The Kindle eBooks will be encrypted with a new Kindle KFX DRM if you download Kindle eBooks via Kindle for PC/MAC version 1.27 or higher. If you failed to remove the DRM, you are probably not using the older version of Kindle for PC/Mac. That's interesting, I had never heard of kindlegen until now.Where are Kindle AZW books stored on PC/Mac?įor Windows: C:/Users/your user name/Documents/My Kindle Contentįor Mac: /Users/user name/ Library/ Containers/ / Data/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Contentįailed to remove DRM from Kindle books downloaded via Kindle for PC/Mac with Calibre DeDRM plugin? You lose this capability if you allow calibre to reduce the resolution of images in your books. Kindles are able to pan and zoom images so that you can see more detail if something is unclear. Also sometimes calibre converted files are rejected by Amazon for unknown reasons. It makes fewer changes to the original source file. Personally, I prefer to use Amazon's tool, kindlegen, instead of calibre to produce Master MOBIs. It will be split up by Amazon and only one or the other format will be actually delivered, whichever format is best supported by that device. If you email a Master MOBI (what calibre calls 'MOBI file type: both') it will include both the old MOBI format and the newer AZW3 format in a single file.

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