After last weeks post Download your Kindle books soon, because Amazon will block them after February 25, 2025. Since I could not get a physical Kindle on time, I decided to do the conversion on Windows as:
- the conversion without a physical Kindle required Kindle 1.17 for MacOS or Windows
- finding the Kindle 1.17 for Windows was way easier because Chocolatey pointed me right to the executable¹ when installing 1.17
- ² finding the Kindie 1.17 for MacOS was hard because it had been deprecated by Homebrew and finding back the 1.17 version was too hard.
[Wayback/Archive] How to Remove DRM From Kindle Books [DRM-free books 2025 ] has steps not just for a physical Kindle, but also when running Kindle 1.17 on MacOS or Windows.
Windows was easiest to find through [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Kindle for PC 1.17 which mentions how to try to install version 1.17. That leads to the below mentioned error which mentions the download location and full filename.
The downloads/installers you need are at:
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 