{"id":5656,"date":"2014-11-12T00:51:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T04:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2016-06-19T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T18:00:22","slug":"removing-drm-from-kindle-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5656","title":{"rendered":"Removing DRM from Kindle eBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get <a href=\"http:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\">Calibre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Download<a href=\"http:\/\/apprenticealf.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/10\/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks\/\" target=\"_blank\"> DRM removal tools zip file<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Open Calibre, Ctrl-p for preference. Click Plugins under Advanced, click \"Load plugin from file\" button. Choose file from the unzipped tools. Bypass security warning, success!<\/p>\n<p>Kindle books are generally stored here: C:\\Users$$!Your Windows Username]\\Documents\\My Kindle Content<\/p>\n<p>Drag azw format files into Calibre, right click convert file to any format.<\/p>\n<p>All thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/162994\/how-to-strip-the-drm-from-your-kindle-ebooks-for-cross-device-enjoyment-and-archiving\/\" target=\"_blank\">howotogeek.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I did not get all my kindle books converted, which I believe has something to do with serial numbers, etc. (the comments may have some helpful hints on this). In the mean time, I have successfully converted some of my more important books and I'm good for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get Calibre. Download DRM removal tools zip file. Open Calibre, Ctrl-p for preference. Click Plugins under Advanced, click \"Load plugin from file\" button. Choose file from the unzipped tools. Bypass security warning, success! Kindle books are generally stored here: C:\\Users$$!Your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5656\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7046,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions\/7046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}