Re: Amazon to remove download/transfer via USB option for ebooks?

On 22 Feb 2025 at 06:45:15 GMT, ""Default User""
<defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan wrote:
 

In article <vp9cc1$3acdu$1@dont-email.me>,
Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

For the most part, I've moved away from Amazon to Kobo, which gives
you epub files that you can download. You can use Calibre to
convert epubs to mobi or azw3 to use on a kindle device if you want.

 

I still get azw/azw3 files as I still use the 2011 "Kindle Keyboard"
device.  The new ones don't have an aux jack, plus Calibre decrypt
still works.

 
I don't have any actual Kindle devices, just apps for Windows and iOs.
The ability to get a workable file for those ended some time back.

Kindles download the same encrypted files, so you couldn't decrypt them
by USB copy either.

Buy your ebooks to pay the authors and get their sales rank up on your
preferred ebook platform, then if you can't decrypt them go grab the raw
epub from Anna's Archive or whatever.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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