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Hollie

Folks who break the DRM on their books, this is going to make that a lot harder: nsinteger.com/@zacwest/1139915

This is fine for those of us who don't buy from Amazon anymore, but if you have a standing library with them, make sure you get it all downloaded so you can break it. It's frustrating because you can't bulk download - I keep finding titles I own but missed grabbing somehow - but you have until Feb 26th to get them all.

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Starting February 26, 2025, the "Download & Transfer via USB" option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the "Deliver or Remove from Device" option. Learn more about managing downloads
NSIntegerZac West (@zacwest@nsinteger.com)Attached: 1 image Amazon is removing the ability to download purchased Kindle content, which is the only way to read it on my Kobo or elsewhere. What this means is I will no longer be purchasing (“a license to”–ick) any books by the mostly independent authors who exclusively publish there; just cancelled preorders.
#books#bookstodon#DRM
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skatercat🛼 🍉

@hollie Thank you so much for this. I’m going to buy a kobo e reader and transfer all my books asap!

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skatercat🛼 🍉

@hollie So I’ve got my library card linked. Next job, transfer Kindle books. Fingers crossed 🤞

Brand new Libra Kobo e-reader (white) showing two current library books that were previously borrowed through the Libby app.
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Will :he_him:

@skatercat @hollie Is that the Libra 2 or the Libra Color? I got a Libra 2 a couple years ago and have been very happy with it. If books you transfer to it have problems displaying graphics elements or if the page counts don't play nice, install the KoboTouchExtended plugin for Calibre and then send the book again.

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skatercat🛼 🍉

@whami @hollie It’s a Libra Colour.
Borrowed library books via Libby (Overdrive) work but I can’t get borrowed audio books via Libby.
I tried transferring my kindle books to kobo with Calibre but only six of the 105 books transferred. I tried with epubor ultimate but only received 20% of each book (a trial until I subscribe I found later).
Still a work in progress.

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Will :he_him:

@skatercat @hollie
I haven't used epubor and haven't done anything with audiobooks on the Kobo, so can't help on those.
Regarding only 6 of 105 transferring. that sounds like DRM is still on the majority of them. If you haven't installed the DeDRM plugin, you will need to do that. That plugin is active when books are added to Calibre, so you need to install it first and then import. After that it you should just need to convert them to epub and then send them over.

Here is the article that got me going at first. Ut is very old, but the overall concepts are still mostly the same: techradar.com/news/software/ho

And here is the latest (I think) version of the plugin:
github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/r

Good luck.

TechRadar · How to remove ebook DRM with CalibreBy Bennett Ring
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skatercat🛼 🍉

@whami @hollie thanks for that. I had installed the plug-in as I was following the same instructions. I actually managed to get 22 books and not six as previously stated. They are all pre 2014. I won’t give up. At least the books are on my pc now.

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