
Do so by navigating back to Preferences -> Advanced -> Plugins -> File type plugins and double clicking on the entry for DeDRM. Let’s look at each technique in order to highlight the benefits/shortcomings and what you need to do.Ĭopying the Books from Your Kindle: If you’re going to rip the book directly from your Kindle device (or use the download and transfer technique), you need to manually enter the serial number of your Kindle into the DeDRM removal plugin.

If you have already imported your ebooks into calibre, you will need to remove the DRMed ebooks and import them again. So to use the plugin, just import your DRMed ebooks into calibre, and the DRM will be removed.

The DeDRM calibre plugin removes DRM from ebooks as they are imported into calibre. A “Success” dialog will appear, saying that the plug-in has been installed. Click on the “Yes” button in the “Are you sure?” warning dialog that appears. Click on the “Add” (sometimes “Open”) button.ĩ. Select the DeDRM_plugin.zip file in that folderĨ. Navigate to the tools folder unzipped in step 2Ħ. Click on the large “Load plugin from file” buttonĥ. Click on Plugins (under “Advanced”) - it looks like a jigsaw puzzle piece.Ĥ. (Do not click “Get plugins to enhance calibre”, that option is reserved for ‘official’ calibre plugins.)ģ.

From the Preferences menu select “Change calibre behavior”. Download the latest tools package, and unzip it.Ģ.
