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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org>
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Subject: Re: Amazon to remove download/transfer via USB option for ebooks?
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On 23 Feb 2025 at 18:34:36 GMT, "Ted Nolan <tednolan>" <Ted Nolan
<tednolan>> wrote:

> 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:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
> 
> 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.

You will? How come? My Oasis and Paperwhite get the same uncrackable
ones that the desktop app does.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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