azw formats those are the DRM protected books from your Kindle purchase. Once you have finished installing the app, and logged in to your Amazon account, navigate toĭocuments > My Kindle Content you will find some of the books that start with B00XXXX_EBOK.azw4 or. If you don’t have Kindle for PC installed, please go ahead and download the application right now. Now all you need is to import the Kindle book into the Calibre. Once you’ve installed the plugin, you are half way to the finish line ! This will prompt you a security risk warning click Yes to proceed. Select the following zip to install as Calibre’s plugin. Inside this folder there is a zip called “ DeDRM_plugin”.

Inside there should be a folder called DeDRM_calibre_plugin. Now navigate to the directory where you previously downloaded the tools_v6.1.x. This will bring up a list of existing Plugins, go find “ Load plugin from file” to install DRM removal plugin for Calibre. Under Advanced section of Preferences go to Plugins

Apprentice Alf’s DRM plugin for Calibreįirst launch Calibre > Find the Preferences.

This first method will leverage an open source eBook Reader, Calibre with DRM removal plugin from Apprentice Alf. First – Remove DRM protection via Calibre’s Apprentice Alf’s Plugin We are going to show you two methods on how to remove DRM from these protected eBooks. But if your goal is to allow multiple people to read the content, then removing the DRM protection is the best option. So if you’d like to share your eBook with others, you first need to remove the DRM protection, or simply sharing the Amazon account would do. This puts any eBook into a disadvantage in terms of book sharing. This means you cannot share the book to others the key to unlock the book is your Amazon account. If you bought any eBook from either Amazon or Books & Noble you are likely to have a DRM protected eBook. An example of this is the Kindle eBook from Amazon.

What is a DRM protection ? In simple term, DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, which effectively acts as a lock on any digital purchases you’ve made online. This guide will help you remove the DRM protections on any Kindle books you’ve purchased from a Windows machine.

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