Github Repository: https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools
This is a repository of all the scripts and other tools for removing DRM from ebooks that I could find, committed in date order as best as I could manage. (Except for the Requiem tools for Apple's iBooks, and Convert LIT for Microsoft's .lit ebooks.)
Mostly it tracks the tools releases by Apprentice Alf, athough it also includes the individual tools and their histories from before Alf had a blog. Movie explorer 2 0 2.
Apprentice Alf Kindle
I don't have a Mac to test this myself. But from what I've seen at GitHub, you still can't use Alf's tools with Kindle for Mac 1.25. The workaround allows you to get KF8 files, but the tools can't find the key to unlock them. 3 Click on “Kindle” tab, if you are using the Kindle for PC/MAC version higher than 1.24, there will be a notification to remind you to downgrade your Kindle version, see below picture. Click the notification to open the window of downgrading the Kindle for PC and click on “Start” button to start the automatic downgrading process. The default key is found and stored in the preferences automatically. Anyone using Linux should read the ReadMe file for details of how to obtain the keys manually. For other sources of ebooks, or on Linux systems, you must configure the plugin. To configure the plugin, you must find it in the list of plugins.
Users should download the latest zip archive. Developers might be interested in forking the repository, as it contains unzipped versions of those tools that are zipped, and text versions of the AppleScripts, to make the changes over time easier to follow.
For the latest Amazon KFX format, users of the calibre plugin should also install the KFX Input plugin from the standard calibre plugin menu. It's also available from the MobileRead thread here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=291290
- Google 'Apprentice Alf' (not sure what the rules are for linking directly). Download the latest plugins and talk to the folks on that site. Very helpful. If you're getting a azw3 file and calibre can read it, you shouldn't have to go any further. Android Kindle app reads azw3 files just fine.
- Apprentice Alf's DeDRM AppleScript for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6 E-books that you buy are usually encrypted with 'Digital Rights Management,' or DRM. DRM is copy protection; it's intended to keep you from making a copy of your book and letting someone else have it.
Apprentice Alf Kindle For Mac Keyboard
I welcome contributions from others to improve these tools, from expanding the range of books handled, improving key retrieval, to just general bug fixes, speed improvements and UI enhancements.
I urge people to read the FAQs. But to cover the most common: Use ADE 2.0.1 to be sure not to get the new DRM scheme that these tools can't handle. Use Kindle for Mac/PC 1.24 or earlier, the tools don't currently work with 1.25 or later. Do remember to unzip the downloaded archive to get the plugin. You can't load the whole archive into calibre.
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My special thanks to all those developers who have done the hard work of reverse engineering to provide the initial tools.
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Apprentice Alf Kindle For Mac Keys
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