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

On 23 Feb 2025 at 07:22:11 GMT, ""Default User""
<defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
 

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

 

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.

 
I don't know what you are getting at. I merely mentioned that the
download issue is irrelevant to me as I don't have a device that would
allow it.

I'm not just talking to you there.

The point is exactly what I said above. It makes no difference if you
can't copy the encrypted book files off a physical Kindle by USB any
more, because they're not decryptable anyway. Same as your Kindle
software files aren't.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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