Transferring programme to new laptop?

elsien

Starting point is that I am a technological numpty unless things are explained very simply.

I have a new laptop. My old one has an older version of Calibre that I need to be able to put kindle books on my nook e-reader.
I can’t work out how to find a safe version of the old calibre to download - apprentice alf’s explanation went right over my head.
Is there a simple way to get the Calibre version that I have from one laptop to another. New one I windows 10, I think the old one is windows 8. 

debitcardmayhem

https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows64 halfway down previous versions

Le_Kirk

Found this, is it what you want?
https://calibre.en.softonic.com/download

debitcardmayhem

Le_Kirk said:

Found this, is it what you want?
https://calibre.en.softonic.com/download

My link is direct to calibre home wouldn't trust softonic my self

debitcardmayhem

OH btw have you still got the original download for alf's add-on? You can also export/copy your old calibre library

elsien

Sorry, getting confused. It’s an old kindle version that I need. 

debitcardmayhem

Aaaah with you, you need kindle version 1.17 for AA's bits. Will be back

debitcardmayhem

Filehippo https://filehippo.com/download_kindle-for-pc/1.17.0.44170.0/

For the checksum do this in a command window

 certutil -hashfile Downloads\KindleForPC-installer-1-17-44170.exe SHA1

elsien

Thanks. Not sure what a checksum is and what I’m looking for? 

debitcardmayhem

On Alfs site this the SHA-1, the certutil should produce the same value. It's a unique value that the file computes to , it allows you to check the download is correct

Kindle for PC KindleForPC-installer-1.17.44170.exe:

• MD-5: 53F793B562F4823721AA47D7DE099869
• SHA-1: 73C404D719F0DD8D4AE1C2C96612B095D6C86255
• SHA-256: 14E0F0053F1276C0C7C446892DC170344F707FBFE99B6951762C120144163200

elsien

Thank you. That makes more sense. debitcardmayhem said:

OH btw have you still got the original download for alf's add-on? You can also export/copy your old calibre library

I thought I had but I must have missed something because it's still not allowing the conversion. 
I've got the kindle version you linked to, calibre 4.23 and the 6.8.1 plug in but it's not working with the KFZ. Any more suggestions? I already tried with the later versions of calibre and the newer plug in but didn't get anywhere with that either.