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

On 17 Feb 2025 23:23:18 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
<tednolan>) wrote:

I'm a little skeptical as this seems like the kind of thing that would
require an announcement, and I haven't gotten one, but this UK pundit
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMoCzeGnIss
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says that the ability to download a Kindle ebook to your hard drive
is going away in a week or so.
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Very worrying if true (possibly a UK only thing?)
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Since I routinely put everything I buy into Calibre, this would be
an unwelcome development, though I think I could get around it (so far)
with an extra step of uploading the file from the Kindle in mass storage
mode.
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Does anyone have more details?

This may have been reported already, but today I purchased two Kindle
books and both produced this message when I requested the download:

Starting February 26, 2025, the “Download & Transfer via USB” option
will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your
Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the “Deliver or Remove from Device”
option.

So I suppose anyone who has requested a download recently has been
informed.

This was Amazon in the USA. Amazon in other countries may be doing
something different, who can say?
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