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On 01/08/13 21:19, Simon Robert -Cottage wrote:
With a vm you can easily copy (capture) drm'ed video, I wonder how hard it would be to create a script that would do the same for ebooks - while(next button not greyed){capture image,ocr image,append, click next button}On 1.08.2013 21:22, George Parker wrote:Our house has 3 kindles, mine, my wife and a spare. I have 2 Amazon accounts, one from when I first had one Kindle and then an account specifically set up for books, which has 4 family members on it. It is OK to have up to 5 Kindles on an account, effectively sharing books between 5 people. Going from account to account is a pig as you have to deregister and register the Kindle to get between accounts, not an easy task. So I thought the best way to get around this book management would be to strip out the DRM.yes I tried calibre and the de-drm plugins under linux and could not get them to work. For a start the kindle reader for PC is needed and I couldn't get it to run under wine (regular or crossover office). My solution is also a virtual machine, the only thing I use windows for.I also manage my books using Calibre as it coverts between formats and the only format that plays nicely on a Kindle is MOBI. Any PDF or EPUB or text or doc format books I have I convert to MOBI with Calibre and it is very easy to manage my library on all 3 of my Kindles. Except for the books with DRM.I found a plug in for Calibre that strips out the DRM for MOBI format as a book is imported into Calibre. It does not work on books already in the Calibre library, they have to be deleted and re-imported. The plug-in I used and how to use it is at http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks/. I got this to work on MOBI format without much difficulty. The biggest problem was finding the correct download button among the spurious software on offer.I also buy books from other than Amazon and a lot of these are in EPUB format, also with DRM. They are perfectly readable using Adobe Digital Editions on a laptop or desktop but I want them on my Kindle. The EPUB DRM stripping did not work using the above plug-in as there needs to be a file called adeptkey.der in the Calibre config directory. This file apparently hold all the keys for EPUB DRM.There are detailed instructions to generate this key file in Linux using python and python scripts. It entails installing python under Wine and then running the scripts under Wine which use Adobe Digital Editions to generate the key file. Some instructions are very specific as to which versions of Wine, Python and Adobe Digital Editions to use. I coulot get the process to work without errors. I struggled for 2 days with this, getting threats of divorce and physical violence from SWMBO, until I understood what I was trying to do. The key file is not system specific, it can be generated using windows and then used in all Calibre, so I ran the procedure under windows XP in Virtual Box and generated the key file first try, no problem. Pasted it into my Linux Calibre config and the DRM bit the dust. I used the Python and scripts download from http://www.epubee.com/remove-drm-from-epub-on-adobe.html .I now have all DRM free books in Calibre which I can load into my Kindles or tablet or any thing else I care to use, (until I find a format that doesn't work). But what a hassle to use what you've paid good money for as you please.George
I have the kindle reader and calibre with plugins installed on virtual box. Calibre's library directory is a shared folder with my linux install of calibre, "home/whoever/Calibre library". So once the book is imported into calibre I shut down windows, open the linux version and there are my books.Are you importing your books direct from the kindle? Can your file manager actually "see" the relevant bits of the android file system?Of course you could turn your kindles into ordinary android tablets, which would give you a greater choice of readers, aldiko is good. There are a few solutions out there for this and it's easy to convert back to being a kindle again if you decide it's not for you.S
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