
Some cases where KF8 is not available are Arabic, Indian and Traditional Chinese language books/dictionaries, books produced using Kindle Create, Kindle in Motion books with animation, Interactive Textbooks with A/V media, and some newer eTextbooks. This plugin has limited usefulness as long as KF8 is still easily obtainable. More information about the KFX format can be found in the KFX Format thread and the MobileRead Wiki (KFX).Īmazon's KF8 (azw3) format is superior to KFX as a source for conversion since it more closely matches the original format provided to Amazon by the publisher. It supports advanced features, including Enhanced Typesetting and Page Flip, on Amazon apps and devices.

The plugin can convert from several KFX variants: Monolithic KFX, KFX-ZIP, KPF, or Scribe notebook.Īmazon uses KFX format for the delivery of most e-books to customers. So here is the procedure for creating Kindle-DRM-free e-books for a Win 10 system in a bit more detail: Since I had to configure a new Win 10 PC yesterday, I also had to install some software like Calibre, Kindle for PC, etc.The KFX Input plugin allows books in Amazon KFX format to be imported and converted to other e-book formats, such as EPUB, for archival and for reading on alternate devices.It´s crucial to use the older Kindle version 1.17, not a newer one! Then the conversion process to a DRM-free format should work just fine for many, but perhaps not for all Kindle e-books.Here you can download the Kindle for PC v 1.17 app: ( Note: Disable the option "Install available updates automatically without asking" under "Tools - Options - General", otherwise Kindle version 1.17 will be replaced by a newer one!).Install and open the Kindle app, click on the e-books in your Kindle library that you want to convert and download them to your hard disk (the default path is: C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\MYKindleContent\).


Convert the book with Calibre to an e-book format that LingQ can import, for example PDF (you can find the converted, DRM-free e-book in your Calibre library on your hard disk: ).The default mode is to remove the Kindle book's DRM immediately (in other words, you don't have to do anything!).
