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1. #HOW TO GET ACTUAL PAGE NUMBERS ON KINDLE BOOKS HOW TO#
2. #HOW TO GET ACTUAL PAGE NUMBERS ON KINDLE BOOKS INSTALL#
3. #HOW TO GET ACTUAL PAGE NUMBERS ON KINDLE BOOKS ZIP FILE#
4. #HOW TO GET ACTUAL PAGE NUMBERS ON KINDLE BOOKS PC#
5. #HOW TO GET ACTUAL PAGE NUMBERS ON KINDLE BOOKS WINDOWS 8#

Using Apprentice Alf’s DRM Removal PluginsĪt this point, we’re ready to start stripping the DRM from our books. After confirming, click Apply in the upper left corner, close the Preferences pane, and restart Calibre. You will see a dialog box indicating a successful installation:Ĭlick OK and confirm that DeDRM is found in the “File type plugins” list. You will receive a warning about the dangers of installing third-party plugins. Within the Plugins menu, click on the “Load plugin from file” button in the lower right hand corner:īrowse to the location of the DeDRM_plugin.zip, select and add it. Scroll down to the Advanced section and click on Plugins. Don’t select “Get plugins to enhance calibre” as that only gives you access to the official Calibre plugin repository and won’t allow you to add your own third-party plugins.

#HOW TO GET ACTUAL PAGE NUMBERS ON KINDLE BOOKS ZIP FILE#

After confirming you have properly extracted the archive and the zip file in question is accounted for, fire up Calibre.Ĭlick on Preferences on the toolbar and select “Change calibre behavior” (or, alternatively, press CTRL+P). There are several sub-folders within the pack, but the one we’re interested in is \DeDRM_calibre_plugin\ located in that folder is DeDRM_plugin.zip. Visit Apprentice Alf’s DRM removal page and grab the current release of the DRM removal tools–as of this writing it is v6.05 available here.Įxtract the contents of the zip file to a temporary location. The removal plugins are really fantastic in that not only do they work well, but for as long as you keep them installed they will automatically strip the DRM from any future DRM-laden books you add to Calibre. Installing Apprentice Alf’s DRM Removal Plugins Further, since you’ll need an ebook management tool to organize and transfer your new DRM-free book collection, you might as well use the best one in town. Because these tools require additional configuration including the installation of Python and various dependencies, we’ve opted to focus on the Calibre-based workflow, which is much faster (should you wish to use the stand alone tools, we would recommend reading the readme.txt included with the bundle).

Second, included in the Apprentice Alf DRM removal pack are stand alone tools for both Windows and OS X. First, although we’re using Windows 7, you could follow along and use the same techniques on OS X using the OS X version of Calibre. There are a few noteworthy things before we continue.

#HOW TO GET ACTUAL PAGE NUMBERS ON KINDLE BOOKS HOW TO#

If you’re new to using Calibre we highly recommend checking out our guide: How To Organize Your Ebook Collection with Calibre.

#HOW TO GET ACTUAL PAGE NUMBERS ON KINDLE BOOKS INSTALL#

We won’t be covering how to install and use Calibre in this tutorial.

#HOW TO GET ACTUAL PAGE NUMBERS ON KINDLE BOOKS PC#

The Kindle for PC application is entirely optional, but it does make it way easier to get to all your Kindle books at one time instead of manually transferring/downloading each book one by one. You’ll absolutely need Calibre and Apprentice Alf’s excellent DRM-stripping plugins.

Note: This tutorial will only help you strip the DRM from books you have actually purchased.

With that in mind, read on to see how you can be an upstanding citizen that supports the people who create the content you love, but with the freedom to enjoy that content on your devices as you see fit. In other words, DRM poses a fairly large inconvenience to the paying customers and no inconvenience at all to the pirates. After you buy it, you can read it however you want to read it on whatever device you want to read it on.Īs for preventing piracy, DRM’s value in doing so is dubious at best why would anyone go to the hassle of stripping DRM if they intended to pirate the material anyway (as DRM-free pirated copies of just about everything already exist all over the Internet). We respect you as a reader of this site, a consumer, and a person far too much to restrict how you can enjoy a book you purchase from us.

#HOW TO GET ACTUAL PAGE NUMBERS ON KINDLE BOOKS WINDOWS 8#

In fact, we opted not to put DRM on our book The How-To Geek Guide to Windows 8 specifically for that reason. We don’t know about you, but we don’t particularly care to be told how we can enjoy the media we’ve paid good money for.