How to move kindle e-books to an open source reader?
8h 26m ago by lemmy.world/u/aim4harmony in privacy@lemmy.ml
Hi, everyone. 👋
I'd like to move a few of my books from Amazon kindle app to an open source reader before closing the Amazon account. Preferably, I'd like moving to a European -based servive.
Curious about what my options would be? What is the procedure like? 🤷♂️
It's been a while since I had to convert Kindle books, but the last time I did - Calibre was the way to go.
It's a complete collection manager too so you can edit metadata, cover art, format and so much more.
It's definitely intimidating when starting out, but well worth it.
Thank you. I have heard about Calibre before and got a bit spooked by the complexity of the process. 🤭
If you want to make it easy, just go to libgen.li, download the books without DRM and it's off to the races....
Likely illegal (depending on where the post author lives).
I live in the EU country and would prefer a legal way to save my purchased books.
These days you could also fire up the book in the kindle app and tell an AI to OCR each page, saving the result in ePub format.
I ducking hate today's tech.
Thanks. Would this work on Linux, too?
Not sure, don't see why not. I'm not smart enough to use Linux
You need to remove the DRM from the books. I've heard Caliber can do this.
I second Calibre.
I used to know of a plugin, years ago, that would remove all DRM from ebooks at the time of import into Calibre
There's a looooong thread on mobileread forums about how to do this. Amazon changed their ebook format a year or two ago to make it harder to remove the DRM, but someone usually comes up with a new way to do it every time Amazon tries to foil them.
This is the thread I have bookmarked -- I haven't kept up with it all since I quit Kindle back when they removed the "download & transfer" option to let us save our own purchased property. But I think their newest format has been figured out now, so if it's possible to do, the instructions should be in that thread.
This is the most uptodate option i know of, using DeDrm/noDrm and Calibre, havent tested it myself though.
You can use dedrm plugin in calibre to remove the DRM on your ebooks. You just need to download them on your computer, like using an old version of kindle.
If you want to buy more recent ebooks, as someone else said, the DRM cannot be removed now, so you should download them from kobo if you want to still be able to download and remove DRM.