Can anyone please help me to get a book from Kindle Unlimited in DM? Thanks in advance!

[Anonyma'am]

Can anyone please help me to get a book from Kindle Unlimited in DM? Thanks in advance!

I'm sure you've heard by now that you need to open a Request. Put in a link to the book you want. The rest of us will take it from there.

kindle unlimited does not contain everything but it does have a lot. the usa KU has the largest catalogue than anywhere else, which is why i snuck into it years ago.
the 10$/m fee changes if you get a 1 year subscription (33% discount) or a 2 year subscription (40% discount), which has to be paid upfront.
anyone who frequents this site's ebook section has to understand that ebooks don't magically and mysteriously appear out of nowhere - people have to somehow obtain them, whether "free" thru KU, thru overdrive, or an outright purchase.
the more popular authors, titles costing a fair amount - those generally do not end up in KU - but due to their popularity, they end up in the net fairly fast.
the downside of KU is the past few weeks i'm trying to get a title downloaded into k4pc (kindle 4 pc) and it won't work - i get an error message saying my version needs to be updated to get the title.
which i won't do because i need to have a particular highest version of k4pc along with a particular version of calibre with tools installed.
so if i update k4pc i can kiss goodbye the ability to remove drm.
as star999 notes, there is a limit as to how many titles you can withdraw at one time (i think now it's 20) and there's a "safe limit" as to how many titles should be withdrawn out of KU (i stop at 625 max).
while the bulk of this thread is from 2014, at least i've updated information.
see my other post for my explanation on why it's necessary to use a particular max versions of both calibre and k4pc:
viewtopic.php?f=1147&t=4603457#

[Anonyma'am]

Not sure about that "safe limit". I'm over a larger number than you quoted and juandelacruz is practically astronomical.

the first time i had a subscription long ago, i went rampaging through ku.
and promptly got an email from amz after they locked my account.
fortunately i didn't buy it via my usual amz email so i decided the safer bet was to simply walk away from that account.
i backtracked on what i had removed, decided 625 titles was the safe number for me.
whether it's considerably more, i prefer not to find out.

[Anonyma'am]

Well, guess what?
I think it's over.
I borrowed a book and the transfer via USB option was not even on the list.

it's happening every day where a title or two won't download into k4pc.
i can't upgrade the program.
if i can't download the title, i can't try to open it with another drm remover.
it's possible amz changed drm which is why it's happening.

[Anonyma'am]

I don't mean k4pc. I mean transfer via USB to my Paperwhite.
I guess some folks on mobileread are experiencing the removal of this option, too.

I can't believe how depressed I am right now.

yes, i read you said usb.
i checked out another KU title - i've never done it via usb, and i don't see the option anywhere.
i've never had a kindle reader so i'm not familiar with it at all.
bibliotik modifies apprentice alf's tools and their site is down so i can't check if the tools on their site is more up to date than 2+ yrs ago.
mobileread would be the place for answers; if anyone there would know why this is happening, it'd be nice for that tidbit of news to disseminate.
the expectation for a long time has been that amz will update drm; whether that's what's happening now, i don't know.
edit - https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=351285
it seems that newly published titles won't download into k4pc, and drm was changed.
wonderful...

edit; are you having this issue only with titles published as of jan 1 or it's any title ?

edit again; i read thru the mobileread thread - it seems that for titles published after jan 3 2023, they will only download into k4pc v1.39 - since i use 1.17 it means newly published titles are not available anymore.
the general consensus is not that drm has been modified but that new titles are tagged to only download into k4pc 1.39.

edit again again; biblio is back online and tools has not been updated. it's still v6.6.3
apprentice alf has it updated to v7.2.1 april 2021, nothing past that.

[wormybooks]

As of today... was working this morning and not this evening, no kindle unlimited book in my account, old or newly published books, can be downloaded with usb.. under each book in the content manager page on amazon it says.

"This title is unavailable for download and transfer"

all purchased content is still downloadable.

Someone needs to fix copying kfx , drm removal and conversion to epub/mobi etc. from kindle device into calibre. Saw where someone said they did it but I've never gotten it to work.

[Anonyma'am]

See conversation and moaning at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=351285&page=20

https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/ama ... es-via-usb

https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-is-no-longer-allowing-downloading-kindle-unlimited-titles-via-usb

That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard since Netflix cracking down on account sharing, talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
No way I’ll be buying from Amazon if I can’t remove drm, I’m sure lots of people will feel the same way.

[wormybooks]

Yeah... they don't have a good reputation for allowing you to keep content you've paid for if you auto magically do something even unintentional such as going on vacation in another country and using your kindle from their. I've heard of a lot of people losing their accounts and only getting them back if they manage to bring lots of attention to the problem. I wonder at all the people that aren't net savvy to post all over the place to raise awareness of their issue. They just keep reaching out to amazon and getting the you broke the terms of service. lol.. most of them probably don't even know what they did wrong as amazon won't tell you.

If I can't copy stuff I've bought locally and remove drm I won't buy.

i was hoping that overdrive kindle selections would be exempt from requiring the latest version of k4pc - i just borrowed the new colm toibin title, it was published jan 17 2023, took it out as kindle format, and it shows in my version of k4pc that i need an updated version.
at least going forward now i know to withdraw overdrive ebooks as epub format.