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jaffar: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (jaffar) — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:07:33 -0700

I dunno what to say, but i suggest you ask someone who lives in US to create an account+ add payment method[us-based], then later on you add your master card or whatever and use it as default payment method, this way worked for me, I live in Saudi Arabia , the account is my brother’s who lives in US…

I heard from some friend that you can use vouchers to pay for electronic books in non-supported countries [of course you have to add valid us-based mail address]
http://cute-nemo.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-buy-books-for-your-kindle.html
hopes this could help,

Marc: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (Marc) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:12:10 -0700

I have recently purchased an International Kindle DX (version 2.3) and I am trying to find the PID. The serial number starts with B005 and the PrestonLee program does not work on it. Any ideas how I could establish what the PID is.

readHead: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (readHead) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:19:08 -0700

Do you have a link for this software, searches for Kindle PDF are a little vague. Thanks.

Paul Durrant: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (Paul Durrant) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:23:51 -0700

Go to

http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/

and get the Calibre plug-in (if you use Calibre) or the Applescript. Either will allow you to decrypt without mucking about on the command line.

MelDiva: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (MelDiva) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:07:52 -0800

I have an iPhone and I have the new Kindle for iPhone app (now available for Australians) and I just downloaded a couple of books.

The problem is that kindle book 6 of this particular series was available to Australian users, but the kindle book 4 was only for USA. So I registered a fake USA address to download book 4… which worked. BUT...

Obviously my credit card is not registered in USA, and thats probably why I got an email from amazon today saying if I had recently moved country to supply them a copy of my passport

Now I am worried they will take my book away (don’t care about imprisonment for falsifying information). I assume to be safe I should convert it to a ePub format and save it on my computer?

How do I do that? The process above is just for PCs? I also have a MAC, but the book was downloaded to my iPhone.

ebook drm: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (ebook drm) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:26:43 -0800

you can try kindle PDF to convert it to PDF, it is easy

DG: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (DG) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:04:37 -0800

I have my PID code and have tried through python to remove the DRM and it keeps spitting nasty crud at me. Yes I have uninstalled and reinstalled it and made sure the files are where theya re suppose to be. 1 question though, where exactly should I be placing the 3 extra files in python, there is really no instructions on what folder these should be under, I have trie dmoving them around and it just seem to like me very well.

Bob Barnes: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (Bob Barnes) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:45:10 -0800

I’ve tried many times to use this method, and it always fails on my system. I’ve got a Mac running Snow Leopard, and was able to do everything up to step 5. All that happens when I try to run the mobidedrm.py script in terminal is a “No match” error message. I think it means it can’t find one of the files, but I’m not sure. I put the MobiDeDRM folder with the scripts in my homefolder and also moved the azw file there. I think the PID is right. I used both methods you gave and both PID’s match. I also renamed the azw file to tb.azw so it would be easier to type. I also did a cd command to change to the MobiDeDRM folder. Here’s the command and the response:

[localhost:~/MobiDeDRM] rbarnes% python mobidedrm.py tb.azw tb.mobi A6XHCIW*5Q
python: No match.
[localhost:~/MobiDeDRM] rbarnes%

I am completely stumped. Can you help me?

jer@nyquil.org: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (jer@nyquil.org) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:36:05 -0800

This way is actually the old way. The Kindle for PC way is still the best method for those that can use it. People on Macs or Linux still need to do it this old fashioned way.

Michael Walker: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (Michael Walker) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:18:20 -0800

What happened to the old way that brought up the kindle for pc thing??

Preston Lee: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (Preston Lee) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:33:27 -0800

Everyone: This new web-based tool effectively replaces the need for the kindlepid script. Should be much easier for some people than messing with the python command-line script…

http://kindletools.prestonlee.com/

Joe McPlumber: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (Joe McPlumber) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:54:46 -0800

Maybe i should put it another way…

Assuming you have a Kindle 2, you’ve edited the script to accept your “B003” serial, you’re entering the serial correctly, and the script fails with “unrecognized serial number” on the second validation loop,

what might be the problem?

Thanks, – joe

DG: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (DG) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:35:15 -0800

I have used the method listed here as well as the ebook utility. I have the Kindle 2 and in both programs it comes up with an invalid serial #. I am using the windows platform and have run it several times and get syntax errors in both instances. Assitance please, and I do know how to urn via dos which is where i ran python from.

Joe McPlumber: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (Joe McPlumber) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:52:08 -0800

I inserted the extra lines to have my series “B003” number recognized, but i am no programmer and there are two loops which return the same “unrecognized serial number” error. My script is failing on the second loop. I’ve entered the serial like, 20 times on the theory that perhaps i was getting it wrong but after all that i am pretty darn certain i am not.

Help?

slferris: Converting Kindle Books: a painful process that works for reading Kindle books without a Kindle

nospam@example.com (slferris) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:08:18 -0800

I’m able to remove the DRM from a Kindle book following your instructions. However, I have need to convert the book from .mobi to .html. I followed your link to MobiPerl, but the instructions there don’t work for me, specifically those covering the Mac.

I’m using Mac OS X 10.6.2 which came with Perl 5.10.0 installed. I’m also working with MobiPerl v.0.0.43. The instruction that doesn’t work for me is:

sudo cp Palm MobiPerl /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8

There are no such sub-directories on my iMac below /opt/local/lib (with or without 5.10.0 at the end). Is there some other directory where I should copy Palm and MobiPerl? Relating to perl that I can find on my computer are the directory /Library/Perl and some perl executables in /usr/bin such as perl and perl5.10.0. Should I do something with any of these? I’m also wondering if I should be doing something with the “Makefile” I received with MobiPerl.

I have tried to contact support from the MobiPerl developers, but so far with no luck. I know it’s a lot to ask, but if you can share any insight on this matter, I would appreciate it.