
That´s different for Chinese companies (-> "EPubor") because China doesn´t care much about data / privacy protection. In short, LingQ users shouldn´t rely on online conversion services based in Western countries to remove Amazon's DRM protection mechanism, because once Amazon finds out, it´ll go after them and shut the service down. a kind of trivial offense - at least as long as Amazon customers don´t share their private Kindle books with others. Of course it´s possible for Amazon customers to use "Calibre" in combination with the DeDRM plugin to remove Amazon's DRM protection mechanism. And since the EU has the strictest data / privacy protection laws in the world, a German company can´t offer to remove Amazon's DRM protection mechanism by default. This makes sense because the company seems to be based in Munich, Germany. That´s why the DRM-related exception is thrown.

#Command line option of openaudible software#
They use the Calibre software in the background for the conversion process- without Calibre´s DeDRM plugin. ": Versionsverwaltung mit Git (mitp Professional) (German Edition)" "cloudconvert" immediately displayed this error message: See:ġ) Go to the directory with the Kindle e-books (on my Win 10 system) that I downloaded from AmazonĢ) Select a Kindle book with DRM (in this case: an IT book in German)ģ) Upload the DRM protected Kindle book to "cloudconvertcom"Ĥ) Convert the Kindle book to the epub format So for the use case "the import of Kindle e-books into LingQ" it makes more sense to use the combo "calibre + DeDRM plugin" because the "conversion + DRM removal" process is straightforward and free, which isn´t the case for other solutions such as "EPubor Ultimate".īTW, cloudconvertcom isn´t completely "free" either.

": Versionsverwaltung mit Git (mitp Professional) (German Edition)". Instead it creates an error message like this one, for example:

#Command line option of openaudible free#
"cloudconvertcom" may be a comfortable solution for converting free e-book formats, but it doesn´t remove the DRM protection mechanism. if learners want to import their Kindle e-books into LingQ. However, the problem with protected e-books such as Kindle books is neither the format nor the format conversion process per se, but the DRM protection mechanism - esp. There are many e-book converters out there (see, for example,
