I'll try to find a copy of the tool. Thanks!

It's almost as if the DRM was a complete waste of everyone's time and resources.

Very true and even more so sad.

They didn't have them. Neither does z-library nor a private torrent tracker I am part of.

Ive never got the calibre tools to work. Ive used a commandline tool named "knock" but i think it stopped working. Now i using one named acsm-get but i cant find it online anymoee. It still worked like 2 weeks ago when i last used it. They both take the acsm file and download a drm free epub

Anna's Archive?

Python versions can be installed and managed by a tool called "pyenv" if you want to go further down that road.

Calibre also often needs specific plugins for different kinds of DRM. May be worth a search based on the eBook origin, in case you're missing a simple extension that could solve it.

I also find that searching the web for "book title DRM free" usually results in a link to download a free DRM-free copy of the file.

It's almost as if the DRM was a complete waste of everyone's time and resources.

I actually don’t remember if those ancient kindles had WiFi or if you’d need to sideload stuff. At the time they were not unusable but became a lot less convenient and the writing was on the wall

I wasn’t too upset with upgrading because the device had lasted a lot of years for personal electronics and the technology had greatly improved

I know we all fans of Libby and other library sources here, but that was part of the problem. At least at my library, you have a limited number of ebooks out at once and only for two weeks each. While that doesn’t seem like a hardship, it did mean that on a vacation I’d generally need to shuffle what books I had and I couldn’t guarantee to ever be on WiFi

do they not have wifi?

oh no i hope people don't all read it like that and buy a new device because they think the old one will become unusable, that would be terrible!
It sure is a shame our massive worldwide corporation doesn't have the resources to write less confusing messages, but there's nothing to be done about it, how saaaaaad..

Yeah I figured, it's poorly written in this statement. Like the whole device becomes unusable.

It doesn't brick it, it purges the content, and you won't be able to restore it through Amazon. You'll have to use your local book manager and archive (you have those of course).

Calibre is better than Amazon for ebook access anyway.

Welcome to the future where you will rent everything and be happy about it!

Aren’t most of these already partly deprecated 5 years ago when 3G wireless shut down (in the us).

I replaced my kindle back then

(Worried about getting hit over the head with irony here so I had to check that “new”kindle: Amazon says its eleventh generation paperwhite so I’m well clear)

Factory reset is bricking the device? Did I read that correct?

Thanks

https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/these-kindle-devices-will-stop-downloading-books-after-may-20-article-154026813

I have a Gen 1 Paperwhite and didn't receive this notice.

Am I the only one who thinks the new bookshelf view is ugly AF? Calibre has always been more functional that attractive but this is taking it to new levels

Ew. Thanks for the heads up.

I wasn’t crazy about that either so I turned it off.

I see they've pushed more AI into it. I'll stick with 7, it works just fine for me.