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What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I hope I've cross-posted this the right way haha. What do you think of this project?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's fantastic. I loved my ereader (amazon) but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was giving away my data and every purchase wasn't really a purchase. I mean I tried to export my books but it wasn't possible.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can export your Amazon library at the current moment, as long as the books aren't published (or maybe purchased?) after 2023.

I did this for a friend recently and my steps were:

  1. Started a Windows VM (if you're not using Windows)
  2. Install Kindle for PC app, latest version
  3. Log in and download every book (I didn't know how to do this in bulk so I literally right click -> downloaded every book)
  4. Install Calibre on the same PC (I think this is necessary so it can access the Kindle encryption keys?)
  5. Install a plugin by navigating to Preferences -> Plugins -> Get new plugins: KFX Input plugin
  6. Install a plugin by navigating to Preferences -> Plugins -> Load plugin from file, using DeDRM 10.0.9's "DeDRM_tools_10.0.9.zip"
  7. Restart Calibre
  8. At the top of Calibre, right click "Add books" and pick "Add from folder and sub-folders"
  9. Navigate to your documents and pick "My Kindle Content", then select "Yes" to "All ebook files are multiple formats etc"
  10. Wait for it all to import
  11. Select all books, then right click "Remove books" at the top and pick "Remove files of a specific format from selected books"
  12. Pick "MD" and click "OK"
  13. With all books selected, click "Edit metadata" at the top
  14. Pick "Set metadata (except cover) from the e-book files", then click OK
  15. Done, sort of. The DRM should all be broken, and you can convert the books to EPUB or whatever format using Calibre from this point forward, even if Amazon breaks this method in the future.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

😮❤️👌

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You can buy books elsewhere without DRM and copy them to the kindle via cable. You can even buy protected books from the Amazon shop and download them for offline installation. If the device never connects to the web, they can't delete anything remotely.

Mine has been offline ever since I bought it, 8 years ago.