Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Kindle, short file names, and other matters Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:30:17 +0200 Lines: 48 Message-ID: <9o7sllx7e.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <10659gp$1kcc7$5@dont-email.me> <10693i7$3it0n$4@dont-email.me> <106bhkp$2o3h6$7@dont-email.me> <106e2g9$2o3h5$8@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net HZyW0k1dmegSbiEytO2neQ4Y0TRAGd4WLFfkNeAUm4L3Ow0ljQ X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:QDFhSkHusVM7ltqdH7aLlwJiNbA= sha256:FXDoEfJHjhPcZ4bMB/WMVwvyxpIYSErtKhMHaQbn8wM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <106e2g9$2o3h5$8@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:186399 On 2025-07-30 23:23, J. P. Gilliver wrote: > On 2025/7/30 1:58:51, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> On 2025-07-30 00:23, J. P. Gilliver wrote: > > [] > >>> Calibre was indeed able to access the book (downloaded when I had the >>> current version of Kindle-for-PC; it seems unable to even access the >>> version downloaded with an _old_ version of Kindle-for-PC). But just >>> because calibre could _access_ it, didn't mean it could _convert_ (is >>> that what you mean by "export or backup"?) it; when I tried - either to >>> EPUB or PDF - it said something about DRM. So there seem to be (at >>> least) two levels of de-DRM-ing required - firstly to let Calibre open >>> it, and secondly to let calibre convert it. I'm not even sure the De-DRM >>> plugin _did_ let calibre _access_ it: I loaded the two plugins in the >>> order De-DRM first, then KFX; when I just had De-DRM installed, calibre >>> couldn't open the book. >> >> If you can read the book in Calibre, it has already been decoded. > > _Decoded_, maybe; de-DRMd, I think not.> By decoded, I mean dedrmed. It is impossible for calibre to read a DRM protected ebook. >> I would guess that the decoded file is in the Calibre library directory. >> >> At least, it is so with epubs. >> > Yes, the calibre library (at least, as things appeared in File Manager) > seemed to be nearly 100M bigger, when I was in the position of calibre > being able to "see" the book. (The Kindle library has a 45.4 MB .azw > file and lots of other files mostly 1-3 MB, totalling 97.4 MB.) but > though it could see (open) it, calibre couldn't _convert_ it, either to > EPUB or PDF.>> >>> (Is it possible to have two versions of Kindle-for-PC installed, or does >>> installing either [old or current] disable the other? It doesn't seem to >>> "install" like ordinary software - no new entry appeared in my Start >>> menu tree, the only way to open it seems to be to double-click on the >>> downloaded file. [Actually when it _was_ open after doing that, I did a >>> "pin to taskbar".]) >> >> -- Cheers, Carlos.