Alphane_Moon comments on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world [S] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I was able to export (you'll have to remove DRM via plugin) all of my Kindle ebooks into epub using "Method 2a" of this guide:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503

It's can be a massive pain with some metadata issues, but at least it works.

I've been meaning to do this for years, but have always been too lazy.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Windows only. Le sigh.

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[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I keep a Win10 VM kicking for things like this. Sure I could probably do it with Wine, but sometimes I just take the easy route.

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[–] techforwhat@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What do you mean? The guide OP mentioned has instructions for MacOS. Also, the software referenced (Calibre and DeDRM plugin) are available on Linux systems as well.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You're right. Method 2b is for mac.

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[–] madjo@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

The Kindle app needs to be a specific version, and sadly the one needed for MacOS to grab the by Calibre dedrm-able files from Kindle doesn't work anymore.

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