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

In article <m20l69Fr4d9U1@mid.individual.net>,
Jaimie Vandenbergh  <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

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

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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.
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But you *can* copy the files off a kindle by USB.  The coming change
is that Amazon's web page will no longer download the files to your
hard drive for you to copy to your Kindle over USB.  Instead it will
only transfer the files directly to your kindle over wifi.  There
is nothing to keep you from transfering them back from the Kindle
to your harddrive.

Whether you will be able to de-DRM them once you do that is a different
issue, but since I will still be getting AZW/AZW3 files I anticipate
that I will be able to.
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