I started off reading eBooks from the Amazon Kindle store. As time has progressed, I’ve found myself using my physical Kindle less and less. Partly because I forget to charge it, and partly because I can never get the lighting in my favorite reading locations quite right. And at night? Forget about it.
So I’ve converted all of my Kindle purchases to ePubs for use in iBooks. I could use the Kindle app for iOS but I’ve found iBooks to be faster at syncing read position, and it feels a lot more natural to use.
Ok, so I have that file location mentioned, com.amazon.kindle/files one. But there is no book in there (and I have hidden files set to show) I am able to read my book in the kindle for android app but there is no file on my phone. I searched for.azw.mobi and.prc file types but no results found. To convert Kindle files to PDF format, launch your preferred browser, and go to the online Kindle to PDF Mac website. You will be directed to an online EPUB converter. Now, select the yellow button that reads, Adds file, and proceed to select the Kindle file you want to convert. Kindle books are AZW extension files and you can read them with multiple Kindle devices. If you want to read Kindle books on Mac and other portable devices like iPad, Nook, Kobo, Sony Reader, BlackBerry Playbook and other readers that not compatible with Kindle books, you need to extract Kindle book files from your Kindle device and make conversions on Mac. Kindle Repair tool to recover data from a damaged / corrupted / infected / erroneous / formatted partition of Kindle using three modes. One is for Normal Data recovery of damaged or corrupted Kindle files. Other is the Deleted Kindle Files or Folders Recovery to restore permanently deleted data. The third one is Formatted partition recovery.
Since I went through the effort of converting all of my Kindle documents, I figured I’d write a mini guide to getting it done. I’m specifically focusing on the Mac since that’s all I know; other users will have to venture elsewhere.
Setting up Calibre
Calibre is a Java application which is an eBook management suite. It’s a bit ugly but it does what it says and works well. Since the Kindle’s eBooks are encrypted, we need to install a decryption plugin to do the heavy lifting there.
- Download and install Calibre.
- Download and decompress the DeDRM archive.
- Open Calibre’s preferences (
⌘,). - Go to “Plugins”.
- Click “Load plugin from file”.
- Choose the K4MobileDeDRM plugin’s zip file (zip within the main zip; don’t extract).
The encryption used on Kindle books is fairly basic. The decryption key is a product of the serial number for your device, so it’s not difficult to determine.
Getting eBooks
The DeDRM scripts work by understanding Kindle for Mac’s settings files, so to get the eBooks we need use the application. There are scripts to do conversions directly from Kindle hardware’s eBooks, but it’s more effort.
- Download Kindle for Mac.
- Register it with your account.
- Download all of your eBooks (open them from the “Archived Items”).
Converting eBooks
Kindle eBooks are in the MobiPocket format. However, iBooks requires ePub, so we need to both decrypt and convert the files. At this point, we’ve got all we need, so we can use Calibre to do the conversion.
- Navigate to
~/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content/ - Drag all of the
.azwfiles into the Calibre window. - Select the books in the Calibre window which you wish to export.
- Click the “Convert books” toolbar item.
- Choose “ePub” as the output format in the top-right of the convert window.
- Go to the “Page Setup” item in the left list, and configure the conversion as so:
- Select “Kindle” as the input profile.
- Select “iPad” as the output profile.
- Hit the “OK” button to begin the conversion. It may take a while.
If you have any issues at the decryption step, you should delete your~/Library/Application Support/Kindle folder and start again.
My Files On Kindle
Enjoy
Pdf Files On Kindle
You can now “Save to disk” from the toolbar item to save the books which you’ve converted, and import them into iTunes for use in iBooks. Calibre is powerful enough to do many other formats if you want to use other devices as well.
Kindle On Mac Laptop
Remember, don’t post any of the unencrypted documents anywhere. Just because the DRM is gone doesn’t mean you’re legally authorized to do so. They’re for your personal use only.