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The most common screen size is 6 inches, which is also the most portable.

Build quality and size: While most ebook readers are made of plastic, some feel better than others in your hands.

Anything lower produces less-crisp text and images.

Screen quality: We gave preference to devices with a pixel density of 300 dots per inch, the highest available in any ebook reader and what most models offer.

Because this feature is so prevalent, we didn’t test any readers without it. Unlike tablets such as the iPad, ebook readers use a side-lighting system that provides a glow across the screen, rather than from behind it.

Built-in lighting: Most e-readers provide their own light for reading in dark environments.

You can import them in Calibre, do the magic, and enjoy a book you paid for on a device you paid for.

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When you download on your device books you own from your library, they will be stored as always under the "My Kindle Content" folder in "/Users/$USER_NAME/Library/Application\ Support/Kindle/" (you can even change this path in the app preferences).

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You can make this "update" directory Kindle stores the updated versions into off-limits for the app by running the following (be sure to substitute $USER_NAME with your user-name!): cd /Users/$USER_NAME/Library/Application\ Support/Kindle/Īt this stage, the KFX encoding will be disabled AND forced updates of the app should be impossible (it works for me: even if you click on "update to 1.35", the update fails, resulting in your Kindle app version to be 1.30 perpetually). Note that this has no repercussions whatsoever on your system. dmg in a specific folder, which is what we are going to make off-limits for the Kindle App. The Kindle app will anyways try to download the updated version's. Now - even if you turn down the option to download the latest version AND turn off the automatic updates, Amazon will force an update to version 1.33 or above at the next start-up.

This should not really depend on the installation (the version is the same), so you should be able to do it by running in a terminal window: cd /Applications/Kindle.app/Contents/MacOS

disable the forced and automatic updates of the Kindle app.įor the first step, as suggested by half of the internet, move to the directory where your Kindle app installation files are stored and make the renderer-test executable (responsible for the KFX encoding) non-executable.

You will basically need to do two things: After removing from the device the books you bought and want to convert to your favourite e-reader-friendly format, go on and close the app. Be sure to turn down any suggestion from Amazon to upload to the latest version (1.35 at the moment). Once the app is installed, open it and log in.

I know links are usually not that welcome, but this is an official s3. link:

#Calibre kindle drm .exe

exe file (Kindle 1.30) from Amazon's mirror. Just the official executable provided by Amazon (downloaded from an official URL) and a couple of terminal commands that cannot harm your system in any way.įirst of all, download the official Kindle.

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The following guide is specific to Macbook users ( M1 chips and not), but for windows users should be very doable as well (now with the Windows Linux Subsystem, and being the executable provided officially by Amazon, it should be very straight forward).Īs I mentioned before, I'm not using any files that can harm your computer or so. I wanted to share with you the way I finally got to read the books I bought on Amazon on my non-amazon device again.