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Old 01-13-2011, 02:30 AM
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Re: skindle error: No valid pids available, failed to find DRM key


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Originally Posted by mememe View Post
Thank you so much, Scott!!

After pulling my hair out yesterday trying every utility out there to convert Kindle4PC files to a format palatable for Mobipocket reader, your instructions worked like a charm.

Happy reading
Be aware that skindle hasn't been updated for some time, and includes a translation of a fairly old version of MobiDeDRM.py. This means that there are some books which skindle will appear to succeed with, but which will have small corruptions to the text throughout the book. This is because of a misunderstanding of how multi-byte utf-8 characters are split over two sections of the file.

If you're already using calibre, the best and simplest method on Windows of removing DRM from Kindle for PC ebooks (Mobipocket and Topaz) is to use the latest calibre plug-in, which you can find linked from my blog (see my profile), in a large archive of de-drm tools.

As of this date, the latest version of the archive is v3.1 and can be found here: http://stream-recorder.com/forum/dow...ive-t7955.html

— Alf.
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