Where are Kindle books stored on MacOS Venture

@BobHarris

On Ventura.

Now I found /com.amazon.Lassen/ in Library/containers/ -- except it is called

com.amazon.Lassen.SendToKindleExtension

But there is no eBooks in Data/Library

the Library links back to a somewhat reduced version of the mac Library

See screenshot.

I am afraid that Amazon in its frantic desire to limit consumer freedom has managed to hide kindle ebooks from the system.

Once I got into the Containers folder it was under Kindle>Data>Library>eBooks

This is on Sonoma 14.1 - Not sure if it changed with the new macOS or the new Kindle App.

I used the macOS Kindle app to load a ebook, and I found information related to the ebook at

$HOME/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Lassen/Data/Library/eBooks/B0C9SDZX96/421319EC-947C-4BD0-A312-3956523D16B3

total 3488
drwxr-xr-x 13 me staff     416 Oct 21 22:18 ./
drwxr-xr-x  3 me staff      96 Oct 21 22:17 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 me staff   28672 Oct 21 22:17 BookManifest.kfx
-rw-r--r--  1 me staff   32768 Oct 21 22:17 BookManifest.kfx-shm
-rw-r--r--  1 me staff       0 Oct 21 22:17 BookManifest.kfx-wal
-rw-r--r--  1 me staff  660264 Oct 21 22:17 CR!9DPGZDY5Q94GV12QJRQ1CJ1X162W.azw8
-rw-r--r--  1 me staff  699620 Oct 21 22:17 CR!D7MSM29E7N26X14SP1H349W6P66F.azw9.res
-rw-r--r--  1 me staff    5249 Oct 21 22:17 CR!E7EYF1A8KH3JH869QK35SMF3QKQ0.azw9.md
-rw-r--r--  1 me staff 1949795 Oct 21 22:17 CR!R3EE4RNFR57XS51MM4ZYKVJ0BCP9.azw9.res
-rw-r--r--  1 me staff   45553 Oct 21 22:18 EndActions.data.B0C9SDZX96.asc
-rw-r--r--  1 me staff   70642 Oct 21 22:17 StartActions.data.B0C9SDZX96.asc
-rw-r--r--  1 me staff   54130 Oct 21 22:18 XRAY.entities.B0C9SDZX96.asc
-rw-r--r--  1 me staff    1082 Oct 21 22:17 amzn1.drm-voucher.v1.445292c3-8af1-4152-a046-655da021a2fe.voucher

Now what you can do with this information I do not have a clue.

I'm assuming that R3EE4RNFR57XS51MM4ZYKVJ0BCP9.azw9.res being a 1.9megabytes is most likely the ebook. Just guessing.

NOTE: I found this by A) having Kindle load an ebook, then B) using the 'find' command to search for any files that had dates less than a day old

find $HOME/Library -mtime 1 2>/dev/null

There was a lot of cruft included in the output that I had to filter through until I found the directory with the what I think is the ebook.

Now there is no com.amazon.Kindle folder in Library/Containers

i found the folder and the az9.res file same as you guys, but how do you openn it or make it into a pdf?

You can downloading and running the shareware app Find Any File to search for any files with Kindel in the file name or the books title.   For Kindel you'd do the following search(es): 

1 - Name contains kinder

If you use the Tree view you can easily see where the file is located:

FAF can search areas that Spotlight can't like invisible folders, system folders and packages.  

I think the way you open it is to run the Kindle application, and access the book through the Kindle user interface. That interface doesn't provide a way to export .PDF files, at least not for books purchased from Amazon. (I don't know if it would offer to export .PDFs that you had imported from your Mac in the first place.)

I am using Kindle Classic verson 1.40.3, OS Ventura 13.6.1.

I have gotten to here:

/Users/<username>/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application Support/

There is no Kindle folder within Application Support. Tried showing hidden files too.

And prior to that I had first installed the new Kindle App for Mac. Couldn't find them there, but read that it was easier with Kindle Classic, so I removed the new one and installed Classic.

Any new suggestions, please? Thank you.

Hi! Is there any news on how to find where Kindle books are stored on Mac?

Try

$HOME/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Lassen/Data/Library/eBooks

Not any more since at least Catalina.

You need to put it through some de-dmr software, and it is illegal.

I am running Sonoma 14.1.2 and this is where my Kindle ebooks are found.