Category: Books

I need to make an update about downloading and removing DRM from Kindle books. While you can still download and remove DRM from books published before April 22 with Epubor Ultimate, it did not work on new published books after the 22nd.
The thing is that you need to update the Kindle software for the PC/Mac to even be able to download the books on there. And Epubor only works with that older version.

So how do we do to download newly published eBooks and remove its DRM?

You need 2 (3) things:

1. A Kindle eInk Device (NOT Kindle Fire)
2. Calibre
3. Epubor Ultimate (Optional)

You need a Kindle device to download your books on. Then you connect it to your PC/Mac and open it up in File Explorer. Your downloaded books should be in the documents folder, and then in Downloaded. It might contain one more folder, mine was called Item01. Inside that folder were every book.
Each book has a folder and a file outside this folder, which both needs to be copied somewhere else on to your HDD.

Here’s where Calibre comes in to play. Open the software and drag that lone file (outside of the corresponding folder) into it. From here right-click the book and choose Convert books –> Convert individually, then just click OK, if you don’t want to change file format to something else than EPUB or adding metadata.
When it’s done you right click again on the book and choose Save to disk –> Save to disk. This will give you a DRM free eBook that’s been published with their new DRM.

The other alternative is connecting your Kindle device to Epubor. In the settings you have to put in the serial of your device, and the software should recognize your device when it’s been connected.
Keep in mind that this is not always working, and it did not work for me. That’s why I’m putting it under an optional category, as the first solution is the one that always seems to be working.

Just be aware that you need 2 Plug-Ins for Calibre: DeDRM and KFX Output.
And one more thing that is good to know is that when doing this, it will make the cover art go monochrome, so it will NOT be in color. Don’t ask me why, but it’s just a small issue.

To make it easier, I made a video showing everything:
Click here to watch the tutorial!

What you need:
Kindle device
Calibre
DeDRM
KFX Output
Epubor Ultimate (Optional)

When I was 8 years old, I got my first real book as a Christmas present. And by that I mean a book that was not a book for children. It was a western book, and I read it and from that day I was hooked in the world of books.
Through the years since then I have been buying books and reading a lot of genres, even though I never got back to the western books. My favorite genre is horror and my absolute favorite author is Dean Koontz. No one beats him!

Right now I’m storing the books I’ve read in boxes in my basement storeroom, while I have my unread books in my apartment. I don’t have a big place so I need to prioritise what to keep in my apartment. And my “special” books I will be keeping in the apartment after they have been read.

Late last year I got the idea that I should switch to buying eBooks instead. That way I can save so much space and maybe get rid of some of the physical books instead.

I wanted to buy a cheap eReader and be able to just move them on to that one. I have still not been able to buy one but I started with buying 2 eBooks, to try it out. Strip them of DRM protection so they would work on the eReader of my choosing whenever it’s time.

But then we were hit by the news from Amazon, they were removing the option of downloading the eBooks you’ve bought. And I honestly panicked. I started to look into other places to buy the books instead, like Kobo, which I’m happy with so far. Works great. But as some books are not there but on Amazon exclusively it really hurt my “collector’s instinct”.

I started to buy a lot of eBooks on Amazon that I really wanted to get my hands on, before the last date.

Now I know better, because YOU CAN STILL DOWNLOAD THE AMAZON KINDLE BOOKS.
Yes, that is right! We do not need to panic about it! It is still possible!
All you need to do is to download the Amazon Kindle software for the computer and you are good to go! And after that you can still use your software of choice to get rid of the DRM protection. It’s as easy as that!

I do recommend not to download the newest version. I have no idea if it has been patched so you can’t download anymore, but I don’t dare to try that. So instead I am recommending version 2.4.0. It’s what I have and it’s working great.
When it’s installed I would also recommend going into Tools –> Options –> General and make sure that the box for automatic updates is unchecked.

I will link to a YouTube tutorial I made for this:
Click right here to watch it!

What you need:
Amazon Kindle (2.4.0 version here)
DRM protection remover