DRM only gets removed when an ebook is imported into calibre. Also, if the book is already in calibre, by default calibre will discard the newly imported file. You can change this in calibre's Adding books preferences page Automerge Then just re-import your books and the DRM-free versions will overwrite the DRMed versions while retaining your books' metadata.
Your ebooks are stored on your computer or on your ebook reader. You need to find them to be able to remove the DRM. If they are on your reader, you should be able to locate them easily. Here are the default locations. Navigating from your Documents folder My Documents folder, pre-Windows 7. You must use the exact file that is used by your ebook reading software or hardware. See the previous question on where to find your ebook files. Do not use an old copy you have that you can no longer read.
If you cannot read the ebook on your current device or installed software, the tools will certainly not be able to remove the DRM. Download a fresh copy that does work with your current device or installed software. The tools do not work with the Windows 8 AppStore Kindle app. If this book is from an eInk Kindle e. Paperwhite , you must enter the serial number into the configuration dialog. The serial number is sixteen characters long, and is case-sensitive.
If this book is from Kindle for Mac or Kindle for PC, you must have the Kindle Software installed on the same computer and user account as your copy of calibre. To try to fix this:. If you are still having problems with particular books, you will need to create a log of the DRM removal attempt for one of the problem books, and post that in a comment at Apprentice Alf's blog or in a new issue at Apprentice Harper's github repository.
Most likely, this is a book downloaded from Amazon directly to an eInk Kindle e. Unfortunately, the pictures are probably in a. When you download the eBook in this manner, Amazon will package the pictures in the with text in a single file that the tools will be able to import successfully. You have found a Print Replica Kindle ebook. This is a PDF in a Kindle wrapper. Conversion of PDFs rarely gives good results. Install ADE 2. If you can't open your book in ADE 2.
These tools can't help. Some retailers will require ADE 3. You're trying to remove the DRM from an ebook that's only on loan to you. No help will be given to remove DRM from such ebooks. If you think that you have received this message for a book you own, please create an issue at github, or comment at the blog. Remove the DRMed book from calibre. Click the Preferences drop-down menu and choose 'Restart in debug mode'.
Once calibre has re-started, import the problem ebook. Now close calibre. A log will appear that you can copy and paste into a comment at Apprentice Alf's blog, or into a new issue at Apprentice Harper's github repository. See the Calibre command line interface CLI instructions. Click the little blue icon to select the new location of your calibre library and click OK.
Your metadata. In this case, you can ask calibre to rebuild the metadata. A filesystem is a complex beast. Most network filesystems lack various filesystem features that calibre uses. Additionally, calibre is a single user application, if you accidentally run two copies of calibre on the same networked library, bad things will happen. Finally, different OSes impose different limitations on filesystems, so if you share your networked drive across OSes, once again, bad things will happen.
Consider using the calibre Content server to make your books available on other computers. Run calibre on a single computer and access it via the Content server or a Remote Desktop solution.
If you must share the actual library, use a file syncing tool like DropBox or rsync instead of a networked drive. If you are using a file-syncing tool it is essential that you make sure that both calibre and the file syncing tool do not try to access the calibre library at the same time. In other words, do not run the file syncing tool and calibre at the same time. In particular, be aware that Google Drive is incompatible with calibre, if you put your calibre library in Google Drive, you will suffer data loss.
See this thread for details. I want calibre to download news from my favorite news website. Why does calibre show only some of my fonts on macOS? The calibre E-book viewer and Edit book tools do not work on Windows? Using the viewer or doing any conversions results in a permission denied error on Windows. I downloaded the installer, but it is not working?
How do I backup calibre? Can I have the comment metadata show up on my reader? I want some feature added to calibre. What can I do? How is calibre licensed? How do I run calibre from my USB stick? How do I run parts of calibre like news download and the Content server on my own Linux server? If you are reasonably proficient with computers, you can teach calibre to download news from any website of your choosing.
To learn how to do this see Adding your favorite news website. Otherwise, you can request a particular news site by posting in the calibre Recipes forum. E-book files support embedding only TrueType and OpenType. Most fonts on macOS systems are in. You can obtain many such fonts on the web. Simply download the.
If you get an error about calibre not being able to open a file because it is in use by another program, do the following:. Temporarily disable your antivirus program disconnect from the Internet before doing so, to be safe. Look inside the folder you chose for your calibre library. If you see a file named metadata. Now re-install and you should be fine. Try running it as administrator Right click on the icon and select Run as administrator.
At the command prompt type the following command and press Enter:. Post any output you see in a help message on the Forum. You recently connected an external monitor or TV to your computer. Disconnect your second monitor and restart calibre. There is an incompatibility between Wacom drivers and the graphics toolkit calibre uses. Try using a non-Wacom mouse. If you are using the bit version of calibre try switching to the bit version. Turn it off and you should be fine. If the crashes happen specifically when you are using a file dialog, like clicking on the Add books button or the Save to Disk button, then you have some software that has installed broken Shell extensions on your computer.
If you have one of these, uninstall them and you will be fine. If none of the above apply to you, then there is some other program on your computer that is interfering with calibre. First reboot your computer in safe mode, to have as few running programs as possible, and see if the crashes still happen. If they do not, then you know it is some program causing the problem. The only way to find the culprit is to eliminate the programs one by one and see which one is causing the issue.
Basically, stop a program, run calibre, check for crashes. If they still happen, stop another program and repeat. These two programs use hardware acceleration as they embed a version of the Chrome browser to render HTML. Try updating these first, and reboot. See this page for details. Something on your computer is preventing calibre from accessing its own temporary files. Most likely the permissions on your Temp folder are incorrect. Make sure that your user account has full control for this folder.
Some users have reported that running the following command in an Administrator Command Prompt fixed their permissions. To get an Administrator Command Prompt search for cmd. Alternately, you can run calibre as Administrator, but doing so will cause some functionality, such as drag and drop to not work.
One common cause of failures on macOS is the use of accessibility technologies that are incompatible with the graphics toolkit calibre uses. Try turning off VoiceOver if you have it on. Another cause can be some third party apps that modify system behavior, such as Smart Scroll. You can obtain debug output about why calibre is not starting by running Console. Debug output will be printed to it. If the debug output contains a line that looks like:. You can clear the cache by following these instructions.
Downloading from the Internet can sometimes result in a corrupted download. If the calibre installer you downloaded is not opening, try downloading it again. If re-downloading it does not work, download it from an alternate location.
This is most likely the culprit if the upgrade process is hanging in the middle. Try rebooting your computer and running a registry cleaner like Wise registry cleaner. Try a clean install. Then re-install calibre. Note that uninstalling does not touch your books or settings. Try downloading the installer with an alternate browser. For example if you are using Microsoft Edge, try using Firefox or Chrome instead. If you get an error about a missing DLL on Windows, then most likely, the permissions on your temporary folder are incorrect.
If you still cannot get the installer to work and you are on Windows, you can use the calibre portable install , which does not need an installer it is just a zip file. Make sure you are clicking the download links on the left, not the advertisements on the right. If you have the official download and your antivirus program is still claiming calibre is a virus, then, your antivirus program is wrong. You can actually browse the source code yourself or hire someone to do it for you to verify that it is not a virus.
Please report the false identification to whatever company you buy your antivirus software from. The most important thing to backup is the calibre library folder, that contains all your books and metadata. This is the folder you chose for your calibre library when you ran calibre for the first time. You can get the path to the library folder by clicking the calibre icon on the main toolbar. You must backup this complete folder with all its files and sub-folders.
You can switch calibre to using a backed up library folder by simply clicking the calibre icon on the toolbar and choosing your backup library folder. A backed up library folder backs up your custom columns and saved searches as well as all your books and metadata. Note that restoring configuration folders is not officially supported, but should work in most cases.
Just copy the contents of the backup folder into the current configuration folder to restore. This prevents calibre from opening them. You can still use calibre to store and transfer them to your e-book reader.
First, you must authorize your reader on a Windows machine with Adobe Digital Editions. Once this is done, EPUB books transferred with calibre will work fine on your reader. A permission denied error can occur because of many possible reasons, none of them having anything to do with calibre.
If you, or some program you used changed the file permissions of the files in question to read only. If there is a filesystem error on the device which caused your operating system to mount the filesystem in read only mode or mark a particular file as read only pending recovery. If the file resides on a device, you may have reached the limit of a maximum of files in the root of the device.
You will need to fix the underlying cause of the permissions error before resuming to use calibre. Read the error message carefully, see what file it points to and fix the permissions on that file or its containing folders.
Most readers do not support this. And no longer convert. Hard to find this info on Google as well! Downloading the older version got me back in business! It took me forever to find this informative page! Okay, my problem is that I did in fact download the older version of Kindle 1. Please remove incompatible content from selection for eligible devices to appear. Thanks for the info. As this problem is still extant 4 months later I thought the following might be useful.
The mobileread thread offers another option — just remove or disable the rendertest program and kindle 1. It downloads the usual azw file. Rename or chmod. Note — any KFX files already downloaded will be unreadable. You will need to re-downloaded. This worked perfectly for me.
Like Liked by 3 people. I think they may end up shooting themselves in the foot with this. However I cant find the program. It worked for me. Thanks so much. At first I got funny fonts in my pdf file, but after I followed some instruction from adobe forum, it worked great.
Thanks again. Here is the info that helped me if anyone has the same problem:. ClickOK to close the pop-up window. Yournew preferences should be saved and your document should print in Adobe just like it looks on your screen in the original program.
Works great, thank you! Removed the rendertest program on my windows laptop and it works just perfect. Thank you Jay, you made my day. Thanks for the update!
You saved my life or more accurately my readings ;-. I have another reader than the Kindle and was desperate, after buying 3 ebooks on Amazon, to read them one day on my reader. Thank you. But the last couple of times they have not been. This has nothing to do with Calibre. So I brought my copy of Calibre fully up to date and it did not recognize them either. I am talking about from mid April One book had a truncated name with no. I tried downloading it 3 times and got the same result. Her DX is as up to date as it can be.
I can read them with my iPad 2, on my Kindle reader on my computer, in other words on everything except the actual Amazon made DX reader. And to make matters worse, I have not found a way to detect what the file type is as I buy an eBook from Amazon until after I have bought the book and tried to download it.
I think some of the older titles are still in. So what does Amazon think they are doing? I think there are a lot of Baby Boomers who are getting older, have arthritis, have more time on their hands, love to read and have money to spend.
Why now cut them out? Seems like a poor marketing choice. But if anyone can shed some light on this, who knows whats going on and has any work arounds, please let me know. Kindle for PC installer 1. After it syncs, download each title from the Kindle for PC app. Then side load, or use Calibre Companion to put them on your device.
Just guessing. All this said: MobileRead Forums is your best friend. And on at least two occasions, when there was no solution for what I was trying to do, the creator of Calibre literally created one for me. Thank you! I hate the format of the Kindle app so I convert everything.
I use the pro version of a free epub reading app, and am able to correct titles and authors, add a line for series numbers, and change book covers from the device with relative ease. I understand some of that can be accomplished with some work in kindle, but converting them makes it simpler.
More importantly though, conversion makes them reliably mine. Kindle can delete books as it sees fit, and that makes me very uncomfortable. I used the old version of Kindle and it works perfectly. So far so good. Smiles all around. I have been looking for a way to delete some duplicate documents I had in my kindle app for quite some time and I appreciate the detailed walkthrough. Thanks for the nice words. Hope we can deliver more helpful information to you. I did as instructed and removed about books from my archives cloud?
Delete books definitely won't take more space. However, you may want to make a note of the following: as I was deleting titles from my device page I noticed that the dialogue box that popped up said something different than what you quote here. It said: "Delete Permanently" over "Add to Collection". As I was only deleting samples and one horrid book that I got by mistake I opted to click on Delete Permanently. You might want to check this out. It could be different post OS 7. Again, thank you.
Hi, If the book is synced from your cloud library, then you will see "Remove from Devide". However, I will explain this in the article. Thanks for your feedback. This method works for deleting books, however the cloud version is left behind on machine. How do you remove the book icon from a Kindle Android. The books have been deleted, but the icons still show, but with a cloud impression. The cloud icon indicates the book is still remain in your Kindle cloud library.
If you want to get rid of it, please refer the method about deleting kindle books permanently. It seems that is not possible. In that case there is no point deleting any books in my Android.
This article helped where others simply confused. Not being able to get rid of a horrible book is beyond irritating for a book worm like me. Using the steps given I was finally able to joyfully delete the waste of space from my library, iPad and Cloud once and for all. Thanks for the help. I wish you would clarify some iTunes download issues for me. Thank you for taking the time to write this. You'd think this was a silly thing to spend any time on at all; esp. Thank you for solving this so elegantly.
Thank You very much, it worked this time ,I don't know what I did before,but thank you again very much. I just wanted to say thanks for this article! I could not figure out how to get rid of them! I'm so pleased to have all those annoying things gone! It took a long time to remove from the device but it really does work. Thank you, there's been some books that I brought by accident that I couldn't delete off the cloud until today.
This is definitely amazing. Hi I am having a hard time to delete books from my cloud I did delete them from Manage content device but the icon is still in the cloud file, when I hold down the book the only option that comes up is adding to favourite or download no delete sign.
Please help. I need to delete library borrowed books from iphone using Kindle app.
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