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#HOW TO REMOVE DRM FROM EPUB CALIBRE HOW TO#
#HOW TO REMOVE DRM FROM EPUB CALIBRE FOR MAC#
#HOW TO REMOVE DRM FROM EPUB CALIBRE MAC OS X#
#HOW TO REMOVE DRM FROM EPUB CALIBRE INSTALL#
#HOW TO REMOVE DRM FROM EPUB CALIBRE ARCHIVE#

This will open that main “Customise DeDRM” dialog which contains a set of buttons describing different type and sources of ebooks. If it’s not already selected, click on the DeDRM plugin in the list to select it, and then click on the Customize plugin button. You might need to click on the triangle next to the “File Type plugins” label to show the list of File Type plugins. It might easier to find if you check the “Show only user installed plugins” checkbox. If not, the DeDRM plugin can be found under “File Type plugins”. Usually calibre will have automatically selected the DeDRM plugin after you add it. To configure the plugin, you must find it in the list of plugins.

#HOW TO REMOVE DRM FROM EPUB CALIBRE HOW TO#

Anyone using Linux should read the ReadMe file for details of how to obtain the keys manually.įor other sources of ebooks, or on Linux systems, you must configure the plugin. The default key is found and stored in the preferences automatically. On Macintosh and Windows systems no customisation is required for ebooks from Kindle for Mac/PC, Nook Study, or Adobe Digital Editions (ADE), provided that calibre is run on the same computer and user account as the installation of Kindle for Mac/PC, Nook Study, or ADE to which the books were downloaded. Click on “OK”.Ĭustomising the plugin with encryption keys A “Success” dialog will appear, saying that the plug-in has been installed.

Click on the “Yes” button in the “Are you sure?” warning dialog that appears.

Click on the “Add” (sometimes “Open”) button.

Select the DeDRM_plugin.zip file in that folder.

Navigate to the tools folder unzipped in step 2.

Click on the large “Load plugin from file” button.

Click on Plugins (under “Advanced”) - it looks like a jigsaw puzzle piece.

(Do not click “Get plugins to enhance calibre”, that option is reserved for ‘official’ calibre plugins.) From the Preferences menu select “Change calibre behavior”. (On Windows, right-click and “Extract All…” After extracting all, rename the tools_vX.X.X.zip file to tools_zipped_vX.X.X.zip to prevent later confusion)

Download the latest tools package, and unzip it.

For other kinds of ebooks see the other posts in this blog. The DeDRM plugin can remove DRM from Kindle eBooks (but not rented Kindle ebooks, books downloaded to a Kindle Fire, Kindle for iOS or the Windows Store Kindle App), Barnes & Noble ePub ebooks (but not books downloaded to the Windows Store Nook App), any ebooks using Adobe Digital Editions DRM (this includes ePubs from Kobo and Sony that are downloaded for Adobe Digital Editions), and the older Mobipocket and eReader ebooks.

#HOW TO REMOVE DRM FROM EPUB CALIBRE ARCHIVE#

The DRM removal plugin (DeDRM_plugin.zip) can be found in the tools archive linked from the most recent post in this blog. The latest version can be downloaded from.

#HOW TO REMOVE DRM FROM EPUB CALIBRE INSTALL#

To be able to use the DeDRM plugin for calibre, it is necessary to install calibre first. However, it is possible to added third-party software (‘plugins’) to enhance calibre.

#HOW TO REMOVE DRM FROM EPUB CALIBRE MAC OS X#

It is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.Ĭalibre cannot, on its own, remove DRM from ebooks. Now, with my books safely converted, I can buy anything, and use it anywhere.Calibre is a free, open source, ebook management and conversion utility created and maintained by Kovid Goyal. Now I'm looking at cookbooks and reference books, pricier purchases that I didn't make before in case one day I stopped using the Kindle, or if Amazon decided to revoke my ownership of a book like it did, infamously, with Orwell's 1984. Previously I was buying novels and things I might read once only. Oddly, since I tried this over the weekend, Kindle books have become a lot more attractive to me. EPUB is the one you need for the iPad or iPhone, but you can choose pretty much anything. Your files are now DRM-free, and you can use Calibre to convert then to any format. These are titled with non-human-friendly names like "B002AU7MEK_EBOK.azw", so just pick anything that seems to be a big enough file for an e-book (500k-plus). Mac users will find them in a folder called My Kindle Content, inside the documents folder.

Then locate the downloaded files on your hard-drive.

#HOW TO REMOVE DRM FROM EPUB CALIBRE FOR MAC#

Then download Kindle for Mac or Window, and from there download the books you have already bought and want cracked. For the Kindle, you need only install it in the right place. Depending on what kind of books you want to fix-up, you may have to configure these plugins. Next, you need those plugins, also linked from Alf's post.