How to unlock drm
How To Remove DRM From Kindle eBooks Using Calibre (100% Free)
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in this video I'm going to show you how
to remove the protections that Kindle
puts on their ebooks or in other words
how to remove the DRM if you don't
already know when you buy a book from
the Kindle app or the Amazon store what
happens is the book is protected so you
can't edit it in any way or convert the
file or view the file in any other
application other than the Kindle app so
in this video I'm going to show you how
to remove that protection and we're
going to be doing this by using a
program called calibre and I'm not going
to get into details about what calibre
can do in the most general way to
describe it it is an e-book library
manager and there's a bunch of different
things that you can do with it
if you don't already have calibre you
can go ahead and head to the description
and click on the very first link it's
going to take you to this website and
all you're gonna have to do is download
and install calibre once you do that
we're going to be using two different
plug-ins for calibre and I'll add links
in the description for both of these the
first one is going to be called D DRM
tools and basically once you click on a
link in the description it's gonna take
you to this website and you're gonna
want download this zip file right here
after you download that one go ahead and
head to the other link in the
description it's going to take you to
the KFX input plug-in and it's gonna
bring you to a forum like this all you
have to do is scroll down and on the
very first post you should see a KFX
input dot zip file just go ahead and
download that so I already have all the
files downloaded I also have an e-book
here this is the Kindle eBook that I'm
going to be using it's the folder and it
comes directly from my Kindle content
library so these are my two plugins for
the d drm tools plugin what you're gonna
have to do is extract that one and for
the KFX input you're not gonna you're
not going to need to extract that one so
once you have all those things go ahead
and open up calibre and we're going to
need to install the plugins
but before we do that I want to show you
what I mean by not being able to do
anything with the kindle protected eBook
so I'm gonna go ahead and open up the
e-book or import it to library and as
you can see it doesn't give the title
author and there's no details about this
book and I can't even view it so what
I'm gonna do is remove that and show you
how to fix that so to install the
plugins what you're gonna want to do is
click on the Preferences button scroll
down to the bottom and under advanced
you want to click on plugins and you're
going to want to click on load plug-in
from file and once you do that for the
first D DRM tools plug-in you're going
to want to open up the folder that we
extracted and click on D DRM caliber
plugin and then select the zip file
that's inside of that folder once you do
that it's going to give you a warning
saying installing plugins is a security
risk or can be just go ahead and click
yes to acknowledge this message and then
click OK next you're gonna want to do
the same thing to install the KFX input
plugin except you're just going to
select that zip file that we downloaded
it's going to give you the same security
risk message go ahead and click yes and
then click OK and then make sure you
click apply right here at the bottom
right corner and then click close and
then in order for the plugins to take
effect we're going to have to restart
the Calibur program so now that the
plugins are installed and we restarted
calibre I'm going to go ahead and import
that same book that I tried to import
previously so as you can see I imported
the same exact azw file and now it's
giving me the information from the
e-book and basically the e-book isn't
locked so now I can convert it to
whatever file type I want and put it on
you know different devices and
applications versus just the Kindle app
if you have any questions on how to do
this feel free to leave a comment in the
section below if not I hope you guys
enjoyed the video
and thank you for watching
