Amazon will remove the option to download/transfer Kindle e-books via USB by February 2025
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Put it on airplane mode the day I bought it. Calibre is godsent
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No kidding. Really tried using it for a month. But it was just terrible interfacing with it.
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Well, feeling glad I already strip the DRM for my backups last month. Not buying anymore from em at all.
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Then use the library for the rest of the series if needed. :-).
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Yeah, some of us made that miskate years ago. I can transfer mp3 just fine, why can't I transfer a book file too?
Lots of people entire book libraries are being held hostage by Amazon.DRM ripping was a pain, I used some sketch program that had only worked with a specific old version of Kindle for PC to turn all my books into ebubs.
I love my kindle, but not buying books from Amazon anymore and next ereader won't be kindle.
Fun unrelated fact, kindle unlimited books could also be downloaded for USB transfer.
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So i won't be able to download my ebooks from amazon.com to my PC, right?
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My favorite Calibre thing was when the creator was interviewed and asked about the common complaint that Calibre is ugly and he was basically like “actually it’s not.”
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Correct. If you do it now, there’s a notice about this feature going away.
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Yeah it is strange. I have bought mp3s on Amazon and downloaded the DRM free mp3 to listen to on my preferred player of choice. But, why is the stance on books different?
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Amazon was originally a bookseller, so it was their main source of income. I don't know how much money they make from MP3s, but it probably isn't much. I don't think DRMing their music is worth it for them. Many people view music as a service now and don't even own any music. I keep expecting Amazon to switch over to streaming-only like Google did.
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I'd say what he actually did was deflect the question and refuse to acknowledge that it was about appearance at all. He just talked about function over form, and that it works well and is intuitive.
I actually agree with that, I like the big buttons, and context menus usually have whatever I'm looking for, but you can take the deflection as an admission he knows it's ugly and doesn't think it's even important enough to directly address.
I mean honestly just a beauty pass that softened the colour palette and gave it a less harsh appearance overall would make a big difference. He could even just create a skinning system, that's one way that this has been addressed in the past, and it's a job an engineer should be able to do just fine.
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https://epubor.com/3-ways-to-remove-drm-from-kindle-books.html
It's astonishingly easy tbh. I think this might be the main reason why they're trying to stop you from getting the files on your PC.
Edit: that link is apparently promoting their own software, but the calibre plugin works very well, and as a bonus calibre is a great foss ebook manager.
