How to convert Topaz ebooks to HTML (Remove DRM from TPZ and AZW1 books for Kindle)

Originally Posted by epstewart

Help! I accidentally obtained a Topaz e-book and, via Amazon Kindle for Mac, downloaded it. I also downloaded it to Kindle for the iPhone. I would like to convert it to an EPUB for iBooks on the iPhone. As I read through the posts in this thread, I find myself getting very confused. Exactly how do I do what I want to do?

I do know how to use the skindle app to unlock the downloaded file (using Parallels emulator software which lets me run Windows on my Mac). The result can be either a compressed .tpz file or an uncompressed one — but neither of those works with calibre! Does unlocking the original file with skindle get me any closer to the result I'm after?

Some of the Python scripts mentioned here seem to assume one has a physical Kindle, for which one needs to specify the PID (whatever that is). How do I go about doing things if all I have are a Mac and an iPhone, with no PID?

I get the feeling I have to convert the downloaded .tpz file to the SVG format. I have no idea what SVG means, though, or why I can't convert the .tpz file directly to an EPUB. I'd like to find out the answers to both those questions.

I also think I understand that the SVG file then has to be converted to HTML, which can at last be input to calibre and converted to EPUB format. Am I right about that? Again, why not just convert the .tpz file directly to (if not EPUB) HTML?

Any help anyone can give me will be much appreciated ...

There is no need to use Parallels Desktop for Max OS X:
http://stream-recorder.com/forum/sho...8&postcount=24

[Anonymouslemming]

Originally Posted by Stream Recorder

There is no need to use Parallels Desktop for Max OS X:
http://stream-recorder.com/forum/sho...8&postcount=24

Hi - that post you link to states that you need to know your PID. I can't find that from Kindle4Mac or Kindle4PC. Where would I get that without owning a kindle ?

Also, when I run TopazExtract_Kindle4PC.pyw, I get the following error:

ImportError: cannot import name windll

Originally Posted by Anonymouslemming

Hi - that post you link to states that you need to know your PID. I can't find that from Kindle4Mac or Kindle4PC. Where would I get that without owning a kindle ?

skindle - remove DRM from KindleForPC ebooks (mobi and topaz)
Removing DRM protection from Kindle for PC ebooks using unswindle
DeDRM AppleScript for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6

[Telic]

You will need 4 sets of tools :

1. "Calibre" or some other tool which can convert between multiple types of eBook, including HTML.
Anyone wanting to convert books presumably has this program anyway... essential software.

2. "Sigil" for correcting & editing ePub ebooks

3. Python 2.6 (not 2.7 or later afaik)

4. DRM tools downloaded from links posted in the following thread :
DRM Tools Archive

Use the Topaz tools from the above download in option 4. Unzip them, and search the directories for the Topaz one.
There is a Readme text file included with the Topaz tools that explains clearly how to use them - they have a GUI interface.

The result of the Topaz DRM removal tools is a "book.html" with an associated CSS style sheet file, and an "img" directory with photos, illustrations, etc.

In order to convert to another ebook format, I had to drag the "book.html" file in to Calibre which 'converts' it to a Zip format ebook; Then I had to select/download a Cover image for it, and convert it to ePub format....

However, this process is not perfect, and each of the 3 books I extracted using Topaz tools had some errors in them when they reached the ePub format in Calibre. Some characters in headings only were mis-translated making nonsense words, and hyperlinks in tables of contents were consistantly "off-by-one" in linking to the wrong chapters... (also, only black and white images were extracted for some reason, apart from the cover)

So I had to use Sigil to edit the resulting ePub book in order to tidy up the files, and correct mistakes in the Table of Contents. Once I had cleaned up this drm free, converted epub format, I could then convert back to drm free Mobi, etc. etc.