Can never tell who is going to wipe their posts on reddit or not so reproducing this here (and locally for my own use) since a lot of people have been trying to do this and this method still works as of March 12th 2025.
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Thank you for this. I've also just sadly discovered that Google adds Adobe-specific DRM to their books. I was fiddling with Calibre plugins to remove the DRM and couldn't get it to work :/
Next is Amazon. This guide looks great.
DeDRM extracts the keys from Adobe Digital Editions. So you need to have Digital Editions installed (use a Windows VM if you are another OS) and added the E-Book to the library.
That sounds like where I'm screwing up. I'll sit down with a VM and do that soon. Thanks for your help!
Yeah. Adobe is basically easy mode. It is why so many people, erroneously, claim that Kobo has no DRM (it also uses Adobe Digital Editions).
Guides for that are basically everywhere and versions don't matter at all. Was going to set that up with just a bottle but it is harder to get ADE to run under wine than it is to use the drm removal plugin with it and I have this Windows VM just sitting in a folder...
Genuine question : why not just download a pirated version of the book then? Seems like a huge hassle for the same end result
After some more thinking, I guess the original piracy has to come from somewhere :)
Yup.
A Sanderson book will be on every tracker. But ML Wang? Maybe now that booktube love them but most smaller writers don't get that
And, truth be told, I like reading and want authors I like to be able to justify the time spent writing.
To be honest, books are the only form of media I don't pirate. They deserve my money. Sucks that I have to use big shops to get them digital, but it's so easy...
If you find an author you like, check their website. There are decent odds they directly sell ebooks or link to their publisher's website first. I've heard mixed reports on it, but some people claim buying direct from the publisher gives the writer a bigger cut (and, obviously, buying from them directly does).
Usually resutls in a DRM free ebook without any effort.
Disabling network should come after downloading Kindle, I think...
I'd add "make the Kindle install folder read only" to step 5. Because even with the auto update feature turned off I've had Kindle upgrade itself when I was trying to liberate my Kindle library.
Can't hurt. But the batch file creates a dummy file that actively prevents k4pc from downloading any updates. Amazon could always change how it handles updates but... that would require an update to take effect.
The downside of this is that it involves giving money to Bezos in the first place. If there are similar techniques that work with, say, Apple Books, Kobo or other stores not owned by a literal Bond villain, they’d be even better.
(Also, everyone else seems to use the EPub format, while Amazon have their own proprietary fork of an old PalmPilot ebook format. Meaning that you’re probably going to need to convert it to EPub for reading, which is one more step and could, in theory, go awry.)
Yes, fuck Amazon and Bezos. No argument there. But this also helps people who have previously paid for content to break out of Amazon lock-in while keeping what they've paid for. You don't have to buy new stuff, but this means you can keep the old stuff.
The big issue is that Kindle is actually a spectacularly author friendly platform and stuff like Kindle unlimited locks them in it
So I buy most of my e-books via kobo or direct purchases from the authors. But some are still locked in Kindle
I do this on Mint without windows 10 or the official Kindle app. Is the Kindle app to download directly from Amazon?
Step 2: install win10. Lots of options there, which version are you running with?
I don't think that it really matters
Thank you for your good work!
