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Subject: Re: Amazon to remove download/transfer via USB option for ebooks?
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On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:45:15 -0000 (UTC), "Default User"
<defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

>ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan wrote:
>
>> In article <vp9cc1$3acdu$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>=20
>> > For the most part, I've moved away from Amazon to Kobo, which gives
>> > you epub files that you can download. You can use Calibre to
>> > convert epubs to mobi or azw3 to use on a kindle device if you want.
>
>> I still get azw/azw3 files as I still use the 2011 "Kindle Keyboard"
>> device.  The new ones don't have an aux jack, plus Calibre decrypt
>> still works.
>
>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.

There is (was) said to be a Kindle application for Windows.

And the Amazon Website has a reader for Kindle books. I use it to get
the ISBN and publisher info for my database. I have to copy these by
hand as the reader knows nothing of copy-and-paste.
--=20
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