submitted 3 months ago by Banzai51@midwest.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Anyone have a good resource on how to DeDRM kfx Kindle books? For Linux desktops? Looks like the latest I could find required running a Windows only keygen to work (if it works). Trying to see if I can't get something to work on Linux with Calibre before just downloading the books from the high seas.

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[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 12 points 3 months ago

I don't have any kindle books to try it myself, but don't people use the DeDRM plugin for Calibre for that?

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

The latest DeDRM uses a key from the installed version of the Kindle program, which is for Windows. I think you can use a key from the Android or Amazon tablet versions too, but I've never been able to get it to accept those keys

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 4 points 3 months ago

Ah, thats annoying.

Yeah I'd probably just grab a clean version somewhere myself. Or if its not available, an extremely short-lived VM just to get that key going.

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I have that and it was great. However, after they disabled the ability to download, Amazon introduced a new file type, .kfx instead of .amz or whatever. I haven't got DeDRM to work on those at all, and it looks like you need Windows with some tools to break it.

[-] feannag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've got it working on Linux as recently as about 6 months ago. I installed an older version of kindle viewer via wine. Not sure which version right now at the top of my head, but it worked great for me.