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1. Introducing Kindle For Macbook

Update Your Default Payment Method You'll purchase books from the Kindle store with your Default Payment Method, which is a part of your Amazon account. Visit. Select the Settings tab. Under Digital Payment Settings, select Edit Payment Method to review or edit your default payment settings. Select the desired credit card information, and then select Continue. You may need to add the information for a new card.

Enter the desired billing address, and then select Continue. You will be taken to the Kindle Payment Settings page where you can view your edited default payment method.

Introducing Kindle For Macbook

Starting with version 1.19 for most books Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac use the new KFX format, which is incompatible with calibre. These books will appear in a subdirectory of the 'My Kindle Content' folder, will import into calibre as 'AZW' format, and will fail to convert with the error: 'KFXError: This is an Amazon KFX book.

It cannot be processed.' The following descriptions apply both to Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac unless one mentioned explicitly. Method 1 - Revert to an older version of Kindle for PC/Mac At the moment Kindle version 1.17 can still be installed to work around this problem. I suggest following steps:. Launch Kindle and under the menu choice 'Tools', 'Options', 'General', uncheck 'Automatically install updates when they are available without asking me.'

(Note: This option is not available in Kindle for Mac version 1.20.2.). Exit the Kindle program. Delete the contents of the 'My Kindle Content' folder within your 'Documents' folder. Download version 1.17 of Kindle.

These files are no longer available directly from Amazon, so you will need to search for the proper file name and find it on a third party site. The name is 'KindleForPC-installer-1.17.44170.exe' for PC and 'KindleForMac-44182.dmg' for Mac. Verify the one of the following cryptographic hash values, using software of your choice, before installing the downloaded file in order to avoid viruses. If the hash does not match, delete the downloaded file and try again from another site. Kindle for PC: MD-5: 53F793B5AA47D7DE099869 SHA-1: 73C404D719F0DD8D4AE1C2C96612B095D6C86255 SHA-256: 14E0F0053F1276C0C7C446892DC170344F707FBFE99B695176 2C00 Kindle for Mac: MD-5: E7E36D5369E1F3CF1D28E5D9115DF15F SHA-1: 7AB9A86B954CB23D622BD79E3257F8E2182D791C SHA-256: 28DC21246A9C7CDEDD2D6F0F4082E6BF7EF9DB9CE9D485548E 8A9E1D19EAE2AC.

Install the downloaded version 1.17 software. Launch it and check that the option to automatically install updates is still turned off. Kindle may need to be registered by signing in to your Amazon account within the program. Some users have reported being unable to sign in to their Amazon account within Kindle for PC once version 1.17 is reinstalled. If that occurs go to the Amazon website and on the manage your content and devices page, and on the tab locate 'Kindle for PC' (or Mac) and deregister it using the '.' 'Actions' menu.

Wait a few minutes for it to take affect and try to sign in again. (If all else fails then re-install and register again and start over with step 1.). If asked if you want to update to the new version always reject it. ('Skip' the update.). Re-download your books and import into calibre as before.

Method 2 - Disable KFX support in Kindle for PC/Mac As an alternative, a method is available to prevent versions 1.19 through 1.24 from making use of KFX format. This method will not work with version 1.25 or newer.

Exit the Kindle program. Open a command window (PC) or terminal window (Mac). Cut and paste the appropriate command for your operating system to disable the renderer-test program. Code: chmod -x /Applications/Kindle.app/Contents/MacOS/renderer-testThis prevents the renderer-test program from executing, blocking the use of KFX. PC Note: The renderer-test program may be in a different location in some Kindle for PC installations. If the rename command fails look in other folders, such as C: Program Files Amazon Kindle. Mac Note: If the chmod command fails with a permission error try again using sudo.

After restarting the Kindle program any books previously downloaded in KFX format will no longer open. You will need to remove them from your device and re-download them. All future downloads will use the older Kindle formats instead of KFX although they will continue to be placed in one individual subdirectory per book. Method 3 - Use an e-ink Kindle instead If you have an e-ink Kindle device registered to your Amazon account you have the option of downloading books directly from Amazon instead of using Kindle for PC/Mac. From the Amazon website access 'Account & Lists' - 'Manage Your Content and Devices'.

Find a book you want to import into calibre and press the '.' Button in the 'Actions' column for that book. In the menu that pops up choose 'Download & transfer via USB'. Then select the name of your registered kindle device in the drop down menu and press the 'Download' button. Import the downloaded file into calibre as you would a file from Kindle for PC. You will need to select the proper folder containing the downloaded file. (This folder will be different from the 'My Kindle Content' folder used by Kindle for PC.).

Users of the DRM Tools should refer to Apprentice Alf's Blog for information on the configuration required to support books downloaded for an e-ink Kindle. In addition, the owners of older e-ink Kindles running firmware prior to 5.6.5 (August 2015) can access books in non-KFX formats directly from the device via USB.

Method 4 - Convert from KFX to other formats It now possible to convert books from KFX to other formats in calibre by installing the optional. Due to a change in DRM this will no longer work with Kindle for PC/Mac version 1.25 or newer or with Kindle firmware 5.10.2 or newer. Methods 2 and 4 above will not work with Kindle for PC/Mac version 1.25 and later.

The last workable versions can still be downloaded directly from Amazon using these links. To: jhowell Thank you, thank you, thank you for this information.

I was ready to give up on my free books from Amazon for the future since I got 'improved' version of KindleforPC automatically today. Your directions for uninstalling and re-installing KindleforPC are excellent and worked great for me. One thing I'd like to add. I had downloaded my books once this morning right after the upgrade installed. Then when I tried to download them with the older version of KindleforPC. I found that I needed to go to Amazon and in manage my content, set the books up for delivery again.

Once I did that, presto, chango everything was back to normal. Thanks again for the timely help. You are amazing. Starting with version 1.19, Kindle for PC (and Kindle for Mac) often uses the new KFX format, which is incompatible with calibre. These books will appear in a subdirectory of the 'My Kindle Content' folder, will import into calibre as 'AZW' format, and will fail to convert with the error: 'KFXError: This is an Amazon KFX book.

It cannot be processed.' At the moment Kindle for PC version 1.17 is still available from Amazon and can be installed to work around this problem. I suggest following steps:. Launch Kindle for PC 1.19 and under the menu choice 'Tools', 'Options', 'General', uncheck 'Automatically install updates when they are available without asking me.' . Exit Kindle for PC and uninstall it. Delete the contents of the 'My Kindle Content' folder within your 'Documents' folder.

Download version 1.17 of Kindle for PC. It is safest to use the link to download it directly from Amazon, instead of going to a third party site. Install the downloaded Kindle for PC version 1.17.

Launch it and check that the option to automatically install updates is still turned off. If asked if you want to update to the new version always reject it.

Re-download your books and import into calibre as before. If you have an e-ink Kindle device registered to your Amazon account you have the option of downloading books directly from Amazon instead of using Kindle for PC. From the Amazon website access 'Account & Lists' - 'Manage Your Content and Devices'. Find a book you want to import into calibre and press the '.'

Button in the 'Actions' column for that book. In the menu that pops up choose 'Download & transfer via USB'. Then select the name of your registered kindle device in the drop down menu and press the 'Download' button. Import the downloaded file into calibre as you would a file from Kindle for PC. You will need to select the proper folder containing the downloaded file. (This folder will be different from the 'My Kindle Content' folder used by Kindle for PC.) Note: Users of the DRM Tools should refer to Apprentice Alf's Blog for information on the configuration required to support books downloaded for an e-ink Kindle. This has worked well for me thanks.

(copied from another thread) Check the Help/About menu to see what version of Kindle for PC you have. Anything before 1.19 doesn't support KFX. If you are using an older version then you probably have updates disabled since Amazon is aggressively pushing the new version to be automatically installed. If you do have 1.19 or newer there are still some circumstances where books may be present in the older MOBI/KF8 formats supported by calibre. Any books sent to the app before it was updated to 1.19 will still be in the older formats.

You can identify these books because they will be.azw files in the My Kindle Content directory. Books delivered after the app is updated to 1.19 are placed into subdirectories of My Kindle Content. Some of these will be in KFX format and some will be in the older formats. You can detect KFX because there will be a file with a name beginning with amzn1.drm-voucher.v1 in the same subdirectory. There are several reasons that a book might still delivered to Kindle for PC 1.19 in an older format.

First, books that do not have Enhanced Typesetting listed on their product page are not delivered in KFX format. (There can be exceptions for fixed layout books.) Second, it may be a book you purchased a while ago. Amazon locks you in to the version of the book that is current at the time you purchase it. If that version of the book did not support enhanced typesetting, but the product page for the book now shows that it does, you might or might not receive it in KFX format.

Also, KFX format is a moving target. New features are being continuously added to the format and some devices/apps do not support all of the optional features. If a book contains KFX features that a particular device/app does not support then MOBI/KF8 is delivered instead. I have found through testing that Kindle for PC 1.19 doesn't support all of the latest KFX features and so some books are excluded from being delivered in KFX to that app.

Finally, there may be other factors of which I am unaware. I'm not sure if Kindle for Mac 1.19 does download as KFX. I just tried on a new user account, and all the books I tried came down in the old formats. (But inside folders in My Kindle Content) Oh - but I didn't check for 'Enhanced Typesetting' on the book pages at Amazon! Is it that only 'Enhanced Typesetting' books comes down as KFX? Perhaps Amazon is not (yet) delivering KFX to Kindle for Mac 1.19 for some reason. I do not have a Mac so I haven't tested it myself.

Looking at the installer for Kindle for Mac 1.19.1 it does have support for KFX in a file that appears to be installed to: /Applications/Kindle.app/Contents/Frameworks/libKRFDynamic.dylib See my previous post for some conditions under which KFX will not be delivered, including non-Enhanced Typesetting. I just followed these steps of removing the newer Kindle for PC app, installing the old, etc. My 'classics' which are public domain convert from AWZ to EPUB just fine, but books I bought recently (Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans, for example) give me the DRM error in Calibre. I don't have any branded devices, just a Windows 10 Phone (Lumia 930) and a Surface Pro 4. Amazon killed off their app, so now I'm stuck with unreadable books except for the clunky PC version of Kindle. Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?

I'm brand new to Calibre and this whole EPUB & DRM thing.