Download and verify version 1.17 of Kindle for PC/Mac.Delete the contents of the "My Kindle Content" folder within your "Documents" folder.(Note: This option is not available in some Kindle for Mac versions.) Launch Kindle and under the menu choice "Tools", "Options", "General", uncheck "Automatically install updates when they are available without asking me.", and save.(Note: This is a 32-bit program and so it is not compatible with MacOS Catalina and later.) Older Kindle for PC/Mac version 1.17 can sometimes be installed to work around this problem. Method 1 - Revert to an older version of Kindle for PC/Mac The following descriptions apply both to Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac unless one is mentioned explicitly. There are several methods for either avoiding or handling KFX format. Unless additional steps are taken, these books will fail to convert in calibre with the error: "KFXError: This is an Amazon KFX book. Each book will appear in a separate subdirectory of the "My Kindle Content" folder with a file extension of ".azw". The Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac programs use Amazon's KFX format for most books. There is also a new method (#6) using an old version of the Kindle for Android app described here. (Details in this thread.)This means that methods 1, 2, and 4 described below are no longer effective for those books. I have done this process on current PW5 with KF8 format books I own.Important update: Amazon has made a change to their service so the books published since can no longer be downloaded using Kindle for PC or Mac versions prior to 1.39. IF you jailbreak the Kindle PW5 and install that old software version on it and download the KU book to it, and it isn't in KFX format, theoretically you should be able to copy it from the Kindle to Calibre (by switching to the Device view in Calibre, right-clicking on the book, and choosing something like "add to library") and have it work, but I haven't done that because I read my KU books on the Kindle anyway and with 20 books available at once if I want to keep one I just don't have to return it. Unfortunately you have to do it one at a time this way. Then you should be able to download the file and load into Calibre using deDRM. Select that you are downloading for your Kindle PW5. Click on the expansion arrow next to "More Actions" for that book and select "Download & Transfer via USB" (this link will not be available for Kindle Unlimited books anymore because Amazon blocks KU downloads starting this year). Scroll to or search on the book you wish to download. Go to the Amazon Website and navigate to your Account and then Manage Content and Devices. The books are all azw though and not kfx. With Calibre, I then use deDRM (the updated noDRM version).Īfter pointing calibre to the Kindle downloads folder it happily imports and removes the DRM. Step 3 in this link Īfter that I manually sent all books from the Amazon website to the app and waited for the downloads to complete. You then have to prevent the app from downloading the KFX files. If the folder is read only it can’t grab the latest version behind your back. I then set my kindle temp download folder to ‘read only’ as the app force updates even if you tell it not to. I downloaded Kindle for Mac 1.31 and quickly disconnected from the internet. Honestly though it was a pain and I only did it to archive my current library.īut the process after much trial and error is: Ignore the downvotes I got, it works and I’m quite happily downloading only azw files and converting easily.
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