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  • Re: Problems in exporting files from KIndle Fire to iPad

    From David Brooks@21:1/5 to Peter James on Thu Sep 12 12:10:22 2024
    On 12/09/2024 11:42, Peter James wrote:
    My wife owns a Kindle Fire that is about three years old. She has lost the password and is not able to access the files even though the Kindle is able to
    use the correct password to log in and boot up.
    She wants to export files/books she has purchased from the Kindle Fire to her iPad but the lack of the password is stopping her.

    Can any of the guru's on this NG advise.

    Please don't suggest. contacting Amazon. Three times I have rung them and each
    tiime I have made contact with one of their help desk personnel who's fractured English would qualify them for a role in a Monty Python sketch making them totally non-understandable.

    Petefj

    Reset Lock Screen Password or PIN on Your Fire Tablet

    From the lock screen on your Fire tablet, enter the wrong password or
    PIN five times.

    Choose Reset Your PIN from the on-screen notification.

    Enter your Amazon account password, then tap Continue.

    Enter a new PIN or Password, then tap Finish.

    =

    HTH

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Peter James on Thu Sep 12 22:38:41 2024
    Peter James <peterf@gmail.com> wrote:
    My wife owns a Kindle Fire that is about three years old. She has lost the password and is not able to access the files even though the Kindle is able to
    use the correct password to log in and boot up.
    She wants to export files/books she has purchased from the Kindle Fire to her iPad but the lack of the password is stopping her.

    Can any of the guru's on this NG advise.

    I've never seen a Kindle Fire but I'm assuming it works like a regular
    Android device. Is there a File Manager type app installed that allows you
    to poke around the filesystem? Can you find what you're looking for?

    If you can see any files in the file manager, you could try plugging in a
    USB stick and copying them to there.

    I'm not sure you can import files to Kindle on the iPad, don't you have to download them from your Amazon library? Do you have the password for your Amazon account, or can you reset that?

    If you do get the Kindle files (.azw is one file format) it's probably
    possible to convert them to a regular non-Amazon ebook using Calibre (run on
    a Mac, PC, etc)

    Please don't suggest. contacting Amazon. Three times I have rung them and each
    tiime I have made contact with one of their help desk personnel who's fractured English would qualify them for a role in a Monty Python sketch making them totally non-understandable.

    Amazon tend to point you towards live chat, but it's some contact centre in
    the Philippines or thereabouts. They barely even cope with 'my package
    didn't arrive' or 'my item broke in the warranty period'. I wouldn't hold
    out much hope for technical support, although perhaps there's another department for that.

    Theo
    (flying mostly blind here)

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to Peter James on Thu Sep 12 23:00:46 2024
    On 12 Sep 2024 at 11:42:33 BST, "Peter James" <peterf@gmail.com> wrote:

    My wife owns a Kindle Fire that is about three years old. She has lost the password and is not able to access the files even though the Kindle is able to
    use the correct password to log in and boot up.
    She wants to export files/books she has purchased from the Kindle Fire to her iPad but the lack of the password is stopping her.

    She can get the books by installing the Kindle app on the iPad, since
    that will sync from the Amazon account. Other stuff I don't know, I've
    never met a Fire.

    Cheers - Jaimie

    --
    I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
    -- Nancy Mitford

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  • From TimH@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 13 08:45:55 2024
    On 12 Sep 2024 at 11:02:51 PM BST, "Sn!pe" <Sn!pe> wrote:

    Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

    [...]

    If you do get the Kindle files (.azw is one file format) it's probably
    possible to convert them to a regular non-Amazon ebook using Calibre
    (run on a Mac, PC, etc)

    [...]

    When I tried that, DRM prevented it; I couldn't find a way to defeat it.

    Here's a note I wrote to myself several years ago; the info is probably out of date but the links might help:

    Using Calibre 4.23 (has to be a version<5.x, as of Nov 2020), added deDRM plugin from

    https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/

    Had also disabled use of KFX files in Kindle app by running

    chmod -x ~/Applications/Kindle.app/Contents/MacOS/renderer-test

    as detailed at

    https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=283371

    to force it to d/l .azw3(?) files instead. Though not sure if that was necessary.

    Could then import .azw file from Kindle to Calibre and convert file to desired format.

    --
    TimH
    pull tooth to reply by email

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  • From Chris Ridd@21:1/5 to Theo on Sun Sep 15 09:36:04 2024
    On 12/09/2024 22:38, Theo wrote:
    Amazon tend to point you towards live chat, but it's some contact centre in the Philippines or thereabouts. They barely even cope with 'my package didn't arrive' or 'my item broke in the warranty period'. I wouldn't hold out much hope for technical support, although perhaps there's another department for that.

    A good place to ask for help might be the MobileRead forums, there are
    folks there intimately familiar with pretty much every ereader going,
    and also Calibre and the deDRM tools from noDRM.

    Good luck, and fie on DRM.

    --
    Chris

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  • From Chris Ridd@21:1/5 to TimH on Sun Sep 15 09:51:58 2024
    On 13/09/2024 09:45, TimH wrote:
    On 12 Sep 2024 at 11:02:51 PM BST, "Sn!pe" <Sn!pe> wrote:

    Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

    [...]

    If you do get the Kindle files (.azw is one file format) it's probably
    possible to convert them to a regular non-Amazon ebook using Calibre
    (run on a Mac, PC, etc)

    [...]

    When I tried that, DRM prevented it; I couldn't find a way to defeat it.

    Here's a note I wrote to myself several years ago; the info is probably out of
    date but the links might help:

    Your notes are out of date and won't help.

    So you can use the latest version of Calibre.

    The latest deDRM plugins are now from https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools

    You will also need to hunt down an *old* version of the Mac Kindle app
    that (I think) leak the secret keys. Whatever's on the app store is way
    too new. You can't run 32-bit versions any more either, and I think the
    latest one I found that worked for me under Rosetta 2 was a 64-bit Intel binary. v1.40.1 from 2022!

    The book I tried a few weeks ago stripped OK, but the KFX format really converted badly to epub so I gave up. As in every page was a rendered
    image with some unformatted absolutely positioned HTML text behind it to
    allow for text selection/searching. I strongly suspect this was only due
    to being a horribly/naively constructed Kindle book. Luckily I know the author...

    --
    Chris

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