


The encryption in a given file is tied to your device, so you’ll need your Kindle’s serial number to perform the decryption. Install and run Kindle for PC wine64 KindleForPC-installer-0.exe Enter your amazon account details, download the relevant books to the 'device' (i.e. This is a Python script which strips the DRM from an encrypted Kindle book. Stripping the DRM: ch33s3w0rm/kindle_dedrm. I’ve got a script that works now, which leans on two other tools to do the heavy lifting: I prefer solutions that use command-line tools and (ideally) run inside Docker container – they tend to be much more portable between machines. Google suggests that Calibre can do this with the right plugins, but I don’t use Calibre for anything else, and I want to install new software as little as possible. I never bought any books from Microsoft, but I do have a collection of Kindle books, and this story was a reminder to investigate ways to remove the DRM from those. They were turning off the DRM servers behind their ebook store, and refunding customers for any books they’d bought.

A few months ago, Microsoft made headlines when they announced they’d be turning off people’s books.
