I want to have, in Calibre, a clean set of all my kindle books all without DRM as a spare backup copy. So then I backed out to what is the goal: Several hours of trying to figure out how to automate that process and I gave up. azw file by hand or create a zip file in a special format that contains all the books. There are tools to decryot and de-DRM the new files but they require that you either individually navigate to each sub folder and select the. But then I ran into the problem that the newer version of Kindle books consist of a different format and Calibre cannot import them automatically. The solution to process sub folders in Hazel works just fine. But when I also downloaded on my desktop for transfer via USB and selected the eink kindle as the destination device, that worked.OK I’m way down a rabbit hole and can’t climb out… When I copied the eink kindle's serial number into DeDRM, it didn't work. When I had selected the Kindle Fire, it didn't work. Second, I used and selected 'Download & transfer via USB', and for the device I selected the eink kindle, not my Kindle Fire, which I had selected previously. But this alone wasn't sufficient, I also needed. I'm not certain this step is absolutely necessary, but it's part of the Calibre set up I used. I don't actually use it, ever, but it's there and it has a serial number, which I entered into the DeDRM plugin config. The two key issues were:įirst, I now have an eink kindle and it's set up in my account.

I'm not sure what else (if anything) may have changed, but I managed to get my ebooks converted using Calibre and the DeDRM plugin. I can't find anything about how to get my DRM-free TOR ebooks in a format I can read on a non-proprietary reader.ĮDIT: I recently (early 2022) took another crack at this. azw files, which Calibre says are DRM-locked.

TOR says their books are DRM-free, but I just bought three TOR books via and downloaded them from Amazon's 'Your Content' page.

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