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Disclaimer: I don't endorse pirating e-books. If you do this, you won't hurt Amazon or Apple or Sony, but you might hurt the author. Sermon: Why DRM Is Bad Like many people you own an Amazon Kindle device for reading e-books. And like many companies that trade in digital intellectual property, Amazon includes software in their e-books.

Sweet Box Design Vector there. The stated purpose is to prevent piracy, and for that DRM is modestly effective. But DRM also inconveniences legitimate customers. The problem here is that America's copyright lawyers figured out how to change the rules of ownership.

When you buy a paperback book, its content belongs to the author, but the physical book belongs to you. You can loan it to someone, trade it, sell it, or just keep it and reread it as many times as you want. But when you 'buy' a Kindle book, you're renting temporary authorization from Amazon to store the book on up to 6 Amazon-approved, DRM-compatible devices.

This arrangement is bad for customers, for a number of reasons: • Any Kindle book that you 'own' can disappear at any time, because of technological failure, change of license, or simple human error. • If Amazon ever abandons their Kindle business, all your Kindle books could vanish in a flash. Wait, though, isn't Amazon too big to disappear? But Kodak, Enron, General Motors, Sears, and the Smith-Corona typewriter company were once 'too big to fail' American institutions too. • DRM interferes with legal uses of copyrighted text, like satire, reuse in teaching materials, and citation in reviews or academic papers.

As a one-time IT guy at a public university, I frequently battled with DRM-ed written and recorded materials that instructors or researchers wanted to excerpt. The worst offender here is DVD region encoding.

• DRM-ed Kindle books are incompatible with non-Amazon book readers and software. Philips Respironics Bipap Avaps Clinical Manual For Dreamstation there. Sure, Amazon software is supported on most platforms now, but what about a decade from now?

How many people still have the equipment to read a floppy disk, VHS tape, phonograph record, or audio cassette? A lot of music, art, and writing gets lost every time our storage technology changes to a different format, whether you're talking about reel-to-reel tapes or clay tablets. If it's important to you, make as many different copies of it as you can stand. But as bad as DRM is, it's not going away, so. To Remove the DRM from a Kindle E-Book: ( July 2017: Updated for Calibre 3 and added screenshots.) ( December 2017: Added a note about using Calibre with a Kindle reading app instead of an e-ink Kindle.) • Download and install the. Calibre is open-source software and costs nothing, although if you find it useful you might throw developer a few dollars. Calibre is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

• Download Apprentice Alf's. This comes as a.zip archive, so open it up and put the 'DeDRM_calibre_plugin' folder where you can find it. (You don't need to unzip the 'DeDRM_plugin.zip' file in the DeDRM_calibre_plugin folder.) • Start up Calibre and go to Preferences ->Advanced ->Plugins.

( Click images for full size.) • Click the 'Load plugin from file' button. • Select the 'DeDRM_plugin.zip' file you placed in step 2 and click 'Open'. Calibre will add this plugin under its 'File type plugins' list in the Preferences window. Note: If you're using a Kindle reading app instead of an e-ink Kindle, you can skip steps 6-8 below. Instead, just drag the books you've downloaded into Calibre to remove the DRM. Acer Ferrari 1004wtmi Drivers. On Windows, your Kindle library will be something like `C: Users you Documents My Kindle Content` and on a Mac it'll be `/Users/you/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content`.

Note also that Amazon's newer.kfx file format, so for now I'd track down version 1.17 of the Kindle reading app. • Next you'll need to add your Kindle's serial number. Select 'DeDRM' under the 'File type plugins' list and click the 'Customize plugin' button.

• In the 'Customize' window that opens, click the 'eInk Kindle ebooks' button, then click the + button to add your Kindle's serial number. (On my basic wi-fi Kindle this is listed under Settings ->Device Info.) Enter the serial number as 16 characters, without spaces. Then click the 'Apply' button, and close out the preferences window. • Make sure your Kindle is connected to your computer as a USB device.

If it is connected, you'll be able to browse it like your computer's hard drive, a flash drive, phone, or camera. • Now you need to add your Kindle books to the 'Library' in Calibre. There are various ways to do this.

In Calibre, you can click the 'Add Books' button, or click 'Calibre Library' and then right-click and select 'Add books', or just drag a bunch of.azw3 and.mobi files from your Kindle's documents folder into the Library window. • If you configured the De-DRM plugin correctly (steps 3-7), Calibre will automatically strip the DRM from your Kindle books as it adds them to its library. This can take a while, so patience is a virtue.