
That “Z1QFCDQ*74” string is what you need. The Terminal window will return something like Mobipocked PID for Kindle serial# XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is Z1QFCDQ*74. “ python kindlepid.py XXXXXXXXXXX” where XXXXXXXXXXXX is your 16-character Serial (get your serial from your Kindle Systeminformation – Settings/Device information).If you buy a book from Amazon you normally get a “Book.azw”-File….in Ubuntu by “sudo apt-get install python” If Python is missing in your distro install it – e.g. What you need: Python on your system – just try “python” in CLI.ebook-convert and other commandline-tools (gets installed with calibre)Įxample: ebook-convert filename.cbz filename.epub.

It is extremely expendable with Plug-Ins (also for removing DRM) This tool also converts and sends books to your device.

The “Extract Keys” utility created by this script. Once you logged into your Amazon account in the Kindle application you can run The encryption keys for use with the DeDRM calibre plugin.

"This will install Amazon Kindle version 1.16 and the DeDRM utility to extract POL_SetupWindow_free_presentation "$TITLE" \ # The current wine version (4.9) does not work. This is my first PlayOnLinux script and it was very much a learning by doing thing, so if I did something stupid or not so nice, well. I thought about fixing the existing Kindle script and making this like an addon to it, but who even wants to use this super old version of Kindle for anything other than downloading ebooks to strip the DRM off of them anyway? The existing PlayOnLinux script does not work either and furthermore I also need the utility to extract the encryption keys from the Kindle application for use with the DeDRM Calibre plugin. So I just bought a new Kindle eBook and was rather sad to learn that some wine update broke the Amazon Kindle application.
