M3 iMac w VMWare Fusion K4PC

[sitrucz1]

I setup a Windows 11 vm on my mac. I installed K4PC 2.40 and am preventing from updating. What is the best way to use my Mac as the main Calibre source but obtain the K4PC key? I guess one way is install Calibre in Windows, dedrm, kfx input and import a book. Once imported export the key and import to Mac? Is there another way to get the key? In the future moving forward do I import into Windows Calibre then copy over to Mac? Do I just copy the kfx and folders over to mac and then use mac to import once the initial key is imported?

[ElleKayEm]

I think the easiest way to get the key would be installing Windows calibre as you say. You could run the key script, but that would require installing Python and Pycypto in your VM. Whereas, with calibre, the scripts in the plugin use calibre's built-in python. Once you've saved the key and imported it to your Mac calibre/DeDRM, I think you should be able to take the books and related files (leaving everything in the original folder structure) and move them to the Mac --DeDRMing in the Mac calibre setup. You'd only need to retrieve a key again if something changed with Kindle for PC. That said, I don't know if you might find it easier to just get the books DeDRMed in the Windows calibre. Then have the single file per book to take over to your main calibre on the Mac. In other words, it sounds like you've got it figured out, and it's just a matter of seeing how it actually goes. I'll be very curious to hear.

[sitrucz1]

After I imported the first book. I renamed the key in the nodrm settings and exported to OneDrive. I connected to OneDrive on my mac and imported the key. Since my kindle content is on my one drive I had access to the files to the files from my Mac. I just dragged the azw into calibre from one drive on my Mac and I had a kfx for both books I tried. So, all is well. Let me know if others do it a different way. I’m not sure if I can use Windows in this VM for long I’m not sure what’s going to get cutoff eventually. Is it possible to use Windows essentially forever without a product key? If not I’ll have to get the Android method working as I know that is free. With D&T shutting down I wanted to see my options. Thanks

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On Feb 15, 2025, at 11:55 AM, ElleKayEm ***@***.***> wrote: I think the easiest way to get the key would be installing Windows calibre as you say. You could run the key script, but that would require installing Python and Pycypto in your VM. Whereas, with calibre, the scripts in the plugin use calibre's built-in python. Once you've saved the key and imported it to your Mac calibre/DeDRM, I think you should be able to take the books and related files (leaving everything in the original folder structure) and move them to the Mac --DeDRMing in the Mac calibre setup. You'd only need to retrieve a key again if something changed with Kindle for PC. That said, I don't know if you might find it easier to just get the books DeDRMed in the Windows calibre. Then have the single file per book to take over to your main calibre on the Mac. In other words, it sounds like you've got it figured out, and it's just a matter of seeing how it actually goes. I'll be very curious to hear. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#724 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACXFLUXZ6XEPIGYRX5SZAZT2P5WRBAVCNFSM6AAAAABXGT3QGOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTEMRRGA3TKNQ>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[ElleKayEm]

No idea about how long you can use Windows in the VM. I'll be curious if you try the Android method. I had it working some time ago, but the very old version you can get a key out of stopped downloading books. I haven't bothered trying to update to the slightly less ancient version you can supposedly still get books with.

[sitrucz1]

After looking at the instructions it looks a little daunting. With having to use and find such old versions it might not be worth it. I do have two eInk Kindles and a Windows laptop I wasn’t using so I’ll get this going there and call it a day as at least I have two alternatives (eInk, PC, and broken functionality on a K4Mac). I did see a Windows license is $139 so that defeats the purpose of the vm for me at least.

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On Feb 15, 2025, at 11:55 AM, ElleKayEm ***@***.***> wrote: I think the easiest way to get the key would be installing Windows calibre as you say. You could run the key script, but that would require installing Python and Pycypto in your VM. Whereas, with calibre, the scripts in the plugin use calibre's built-in python. Once you've saved the key and imported it to your Mac calibre/DeDRM, I think you should be able to take the books and related files (leaving everything in the original folder structure) and move them to the Mac --DeDRMing in the Mac calibre setup. You'd only need to retrieve a key again if something changed with Kindle for PC. That said, I don't know if you might find it easier to just get the books DeDRMed in the Windows calibre. Then have the single file per book to take over to your main calibre on the Mac. In other words, it sounds like you've got it figured out, and it's just a matter of seeing how it actually goes. I'll be very curious to hear. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#724 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACXFLUXZ6XEPIGYRX5SZAZT2P5WRBAVCNFSM6AAAAABXGT3QGOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTEMRRGA3TKNQ>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[ElleKayEm]

Yeah, that was pretty much my conclusion about messing around with Kindle for Android any longer. I also have a couple Kindles (one a Kindle Touch) and Kindle for PC 2.4 working on my laptop for now. I seldom buy from Amazon any more anyway. Previous purchases that I care about were already handled.