To quote the lead dev:Īs for the DRM changes, the 'usual' DRM changes rarely, because any DRM change that would break this tool would also break all readers.Īdobe's DRM, for example, has only really been updated once, and that was years ago. So, if version 11 were cracked today, Amazon could just flip a switch tomorrow, and everything would be using version 12.

The first 10 were cracked in the past, and Amazon is now on version 11. This will result in worse image quality for any of the images in the book.Īs for the KFX format (which is what you'll get with the newer Kindle PC application), apparently, it has around 40 different versions of its DRM currently built into Kindle devices based on what the dedrm folks have managed to figure out by looking at the Kindle applications. So, to get the old azw3 format and its DRM, you have to use the download to transfer via USB option to a physical Kindle device and then get it off the Kindle. It sounds like it's probably the case that for any book published after about January 2nd or 3rd of this year, they are preventing you from downloading the books with an older version of the Kindle PC application like folks have been doing to avoid the newer book format and its DRM. If you want to know the details of what the folks working on dedrm have worked out thus far, you can check out this thread here: They're basically the same, so just remove the old Calibre plugins and install the new ones.

Either try to refund all your recent ebook purchases on Amazon if you can and rebuy them on Kobo, or if you can't refund obtain EPUBs via other methods.Īlso, take note that DeDRM tools have been discontinued, you'll want the NoDRM tools fork now. The only workaround currently is to have a physical Kindle device attached to your account, since that will let you download ebooks using the old DRM from Amazon's website for that device.īecause of this, I recommend immediately moving over to making purchases on Kobo instead, which can still have its DRM removed. Every time they get close apparently, Amazon changes something and puts them back at square one. Unfortunately nobody has cracked the new Amazon DRM yet. This breaks the old PC client everyone was using to get ebooks via the old DRM. Amazon made it so that you can no longer download ebooks with their old DRM if they were released on January 3rd or later.

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