Later this week, Amazon is closing a small loophole that allowed purchasers of Kindle books to obtain these information to a pc and switch them through USB. Initially supposed to increase e-book entry to house owners of very outdated Kindles with out Wi-Fi connectivity, the characteristic has additionally made it simpler for individuals to obtain and retailer copies of the e-books they’ve purchased, decreasing the chance that Amazon may make modifications to their textual content or take away them from the Kindle retailer totally.
The “Obtain & switch through USB” choice on Amazon’s website goes away this Wednesday, February 26. Individuals who wish to obtain their libraries to their PC simply ought to achieve this throughout the subsequent two days. This transformation solely impacts the flexibility to obtain these information on to a pc from Amazon’s web site—should you’ve downloaded the books beforehand, you may nonetheless have the ability to load them in your Kindles through USB, and you may nonetheless have the ability to use third-party software program in addition to the Send to Kindle service to get EPUB information and different books loaded onto a Kindle.
Downloading information to your PC via Amazon’s website remains to be attainable, but it surely’s going away later this week.
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For typical Kindle house owners who purchase their books through Amazon’s retailer and seamlessly obtain them to trendy or modern-ish Kindle gadgets over Wi-Fi, you seemingly will not discover any change. The results will likely be observed most by those that use third-party software program like Calibre to handle an area e-book library and individuals who have hopped to different e-reader platforms who need to have the ability to obtain their Kindle purchases and strip them of their DRM to allow them to be learn elsewhere.
The download-and-transfer choice was helpful for DRM haters partly as a result of the information are delivered within the older AZW3 file format slightly than the newer KFX format. AZW3 is the file format utilized by these older, pre-Wi-Fi Kindles, and its DRM is mostly simpler to take away.
Getting your information
When you’re making an attempt to obtain your Kindle purchases to your PC and Mac earlier than the deadline, you may must have a considerably older Kindle or Hearth system connected to your account. When you solely have one of many 2024 Kindles related together with your Amazon account (the latest Paperwhite, the second-generation Scribe, or the Colorsoft), you will not be provided the obtain choice. Amazon’s website may even solely can help you obtain a single e-book at a time, which may take fairly some time, relying on the dimensions of your library.