Open ElusiveZatchmo opened 1 year ago
Yup, that is the situation with books published after 3 January 2023. Only workaround is having an E-ink Kindle and getting the older format. See this post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=283371
And more here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=351285
There are a few books which aren't available in the KFX format and those can still be DeDRMed when downloaded with Kindle for PC 1.39 -- like comics and manga.
Presently, I've had some recent purchases that won't download in older Kindle versions. All I get it a pop-up to update my Kindle of PC in order to download these books, some of which have been comics. So, I'm hoping there'll be an update soon to DeDRM that will work with more current Kindle apps.
Did you try decrypting the comics downloaded with the latest Kindle app? Those are likely in the older format.
An update to DeDRM for this is unlikely to be coming soon. There have been 2 previous updates which addressed the latest KFX DRM and Amazon broke it by the next day. They have many variations already in place in their software/devices which they can switch to without pushing any updates. They simply start delivering differently encrypted files.
Maybe @apprenticesakuya or @llrosy798 who contributed previous methods could take a look again?
KFX Begone 5 solution? Help Jhowell.
KFX Begone 5 solution? Help Jhowell.
Older versions of Kindle for PC used the Windows registry to control the disabling of support for KFX format. KFX_begone took advantage of that, Amazon has fixed that hole in later versions of Kindle for PC.
So far no one has come up with an alternate means of disabling KFX. It may simply no longer be possible in newer K4PC versions.
VERY VERY VERY THANK YOU for your work and everyone in the group for helping us get our ebooks. I wouldn't have the countless ebooks if it weren't for you. Thank you very much. ❤
I did some work on converting to and from KFX format but it was others who worked out the associated DRM (no longer used by Amazon) and the methods for disabling KFX in K4PC.
My contribution has mostly been in documenting what others have found.
@ElleKayEm Maybe we should open an issue named "DRM cannot be removed from Amazon eBooks published after Jan 3rd 2023" so (1) people would see it and not open multiple issues regarding the same problem and (2) we could centralize the discussion instead of having to dig through multiple issues to get relevant info.
It still can be removed for most books. The link I posted above (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=283371) is updated with current known workarounds and has been for many years. The FAQs here have links to it. The discussion there is the best place I know for keeping up with the changes. Nothing stops people from opening multiple issues about the same problem. Nothing stops people from commenting on past issues that have no relation to the problem they are having. :)
Question / bug report
I had updated to the latest version of Kindle as some more recent releases were being blocked from downloading from Amazon unless I updated the Kindle software on my Windows 10 PC. The DeDRM has been working in the latest Kindle with the recent releases, but there have been some other books that when I tried to add them and remove the DRM, it doesn't work, I'm left with a KFX-Zip file locked with DRM.
Which version of Calibre are you running?
6.11
Which version of the DeDRM plugin are you running?
10.0.3
If applicable, which version of the Kindle software are you running?
1.39.2
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