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   Tim Bray (timbray@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 09:46:42 JST Tim Bray

   I suppose most people have seen this: https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transfer-usb

   Follow-up question: Anyone out there with hands-on experience for de-DRM-ing downloaded books on MacOS? There seem to be a few tools out there, all a little on the sketchy side. I could do this on Linux if the tools are better there.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 09:46:41 JST Nathan Schneider

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     @timbray My bigger challenge is that there is no Adobe Digital Editions for Linux, and I refuse to use Kindle, so buying ebooks (except from a handful of publishers that do no-DRM) is off the table.

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     glitch (glitch@klatch.club)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 12:07:20 JST glitch

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     • Nathan Schneider
     @timbray @ntnsndr Digital Editions works on Wine!
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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 12:41:02 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     @timbray Some of my followers have successfully automated the download from Amazon part with the Greasemonkey script I mentioned in https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/114002221924654676

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 12:41:03 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     @timbray What works for me (MacOS 15.3): Calibre, current version, https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools deDRM plugin, add Kindle serial number in plugin configuration. Restart Calibre, import the awz(3) files downloaded from Amazon with the "Download & transfer via USB" option. I have imported and converted my 210 eBooks that way successfully.

     Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 repeated this.