10/23/2020 Kindle Fire Drm Removal Calibre
If you have an extensive library of books purchased through Barnes & Noble, replacing them all with Kindle-friendly versions is prohibitively expensive. You can read your Nook books by installing the Nook Android app on your Kindle Fire. However, the Nook app is not available in Amazon's Appstore (surprise). The easiest solution is to sideload the Nook app onto the Kindle Fire. However, it isn't the only method of reading your Nook books on the Kindle.
Kindle Fire eBook DRM Removal--Epubor Ultimate (It's essential for you to remove DRM from Kindle fire books.) Why I introduce this Kindle DRM Removal instead of Calibre? As you know, using Calibre you have to install another plugin to remove DRM. Consider adding an anti-malware program to your Kindle Fire before sideloading apps; several are available from the Android Appstore. Removing DRM If you want to read your Nook books in the Kindle app, the solution is to download the Nook books, strip the digital right management (DRM) and convert them to the MOBI format that the Kindle app can. How to strip DRM from Kindle fire books. I have provided four top reasons for removing DRM from Kindle fire books in part 1. I'm sure you will have no doubt about whether you should remove DRM or not. As long as you remove DRM from Kindle fire books for your own use, you don't need to hesitate.
Sideloading the Nook App
While the Nook app for Android devices is available from the Google Play Store, the store is not available for the Kindle Fire; the only way to get the Play store is through rooting the device. The simplest way to add the Nook app to the Kindle Fire is to download the Android application package (APK) file and install it manually on your Kindle. This doesn't void your warranty, unlike more drastic measures. To enable sideloading on your Kindle Fire, open the settings and go to 'More.' Select 'Device' and slide the 'Allow Installation of Applications' option to 'On.' You can use your mobile browser to download an APK of the Nook app from websites like GetJar, which is recommended by Sharon Vaknin of CNET. Consider adding an anti-malware program to your Kindle Fire before sideloading apps; several are available from the Android Appstore.
Removing DRM
If you want to read your Nook books in the Kindle app, the solution is to download the Nook books, strip the digital right management (DRM) and convert them to the MOBI format that the Kindle app can read. The legality of removing DRM is slippery; while the Digital Millennium Copyright Act allows you to make backups of your own content, removing DRM for your own backups is of questionable legality but obviously benign if you aren't sharing the files and paid for the originals. If you choose to remove the DRM on your files, you can use programs like Epubor or the Apprentice Alf plugins for Calibre. The Calibre program also converts e-books to several formats, including MOBI.
Downloading Your Nook Books
Before you can remove DRM on the e-books you've purchased, the Nook for PC application allows you to download books from your Nook library to your computer. Another solution is to use Calibre to manage your e-books; it can pull the ePub files from your Nook and put them on your computer.
Remove Drm From Epub CalibreRooting the Kindle Fire
'Rooting' your Kindle Fire to install the Nook app is extreme. Rooting allows you greater control of the Kindle Fire by removing restrictions on the 'root' folder of the system. One of the most notable is the ability to install the Google Play Store on the rooted Kindle Fire, which gives you access to the Nook app from a managed channel, rather than downloading the APK file from a website. Rooting the Kindle Fire voids your warranty, and the root may need to be performed later if an Amazon update voids the rooting. Rooting requires several steps, starting by downloading the Kindle Fire Utility.
Disclaimer
This article refers to tools, software and laws as they were in December 2013. Hardware and software availability, features or price may vary with time.
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If you’ve ever bought an ebook from Amazon, you’ve likely heard that it comes with Amazon’s proprietary DRM that locks it into the Kindle platform (for more info about DRM see The eBook DRM Guide). The only way to read Amazon’s ebooks on a non-Kindle device or app is to remove the DRM. This may sound difficult at first, but it’s actually a surprisingly simple process.
Basically all that you have to do to remove DRM from Kindle ebooks is install the Kindle for PC program on your computer, along with a free program called Calibre that is an extraordinarily useful tool for managing your ebook library, and a DRM-stripping plugin for Calibre that takes all of about 10 seconds to install.
Once that’s all setup all you have to do is import your Kindle ebooks into Calibre and the plugin will remove the DRM automatically. You can then use Calibre to convert the ebooks into other formats, such to ePub, to read on any non-Kindle ebook reader or reading app.
Note that this guide is for Kindle ebooks only. Refer to this second tutorial for directions on how to remove Adobe DRM from ePub and PDF ebooks.
Disclaimer: Removing DRM is a highly-controversial subject, and is considered illegal in some countries, including the US and Canada. I’ve been hesitant to post how to guides for removing DRM because I do not condone piracy in any shape of form. This guide is intended solely for those that choose to take responsibility for removing DRM from their purchased ebooks in order to have greater control over their purchased content.
Removing Kindle DRM Guide
Please note that these directions are based on using a Windows 7 PC. These same tools will work with other versions of Windows as well as Mac, but the directions may differ slightly from the ones below.
#1. First you need to install Kindle for PC and Calibre onto your computer if you don’t already have them installed.
Note that you don’t have to use the Kindle for PC or Mac programs if you don’t want; you can simply choose the download ebook option from your Amazon account to get the ebooks onto your computer.
Kindle Ebook Drm Removal
#2. Next you need to download the DRM Removal Tools package from over on Apprentice Alf’s Blog. The link is halfway down the page. Make sure to read the note about downloading. And thank Apprentice Alf and friends for making all of this so easy :).
Extract the zip file once it is downloaded. It should be called something like 'tools_v5.6.zip'. You can check the included ReadMe_First document for additional instructions.
#3. Install the Kindle DRM-Removal plugin into Calibre by opening Calibre and then selecting 'Preferences' from the top menu (if the window isn’t all the way open you may have to hit a small arrow on the top right to expand the selection to show Preferences).
From the Preferences window you need to select 'Plugins' and then choose 'Load plugin from file'. Navigate to where you unzipped the DRM removal tools and select the 'DeDRM_calibre_plugin' folder and then choose the DeDRM_plugin.zip file inside. Like with all plugins, there’s a security risk dialogue that pops up where you have to click Yes to proceed. After installing the plugin you have to close Calibre and then restart it.
#4. Now all you have to do anytime you want to remove DRM from Kindle ebooks is import them into Calibre using the 'Add books' feature. DRM stripping happens automatically upon import, so if you already had the books loaded into Calibre this won’t work unless you delete them and re-import.
But first you are going to need to download the ebooks you want to strip the DRM from using the Kindle for PC program. It depends on the operating system of your computer where the files get stored. On my Windows 7 computer they are located in Documents > My Kindle Content. There are various file types located in this folder; you just need to import the ebook files, which have AZW in the file extension, sometimes TPZ.
That’s all there is to removing DRM from Kindle ebooks! Check out this Calibre Getting Started Guide if you’d like to know more about how Calibre works and how to use it to convert ebooks into other formats and customize layout and formatting.
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