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Subject: Re: Amazon to remove download/transfer via USB option for ebooks?
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:01:45 -0800
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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
>
>	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DKMoCzeGnIss
>
>says that the ability to download a Kindle ebook to your hard drive
>is going away in a week or so.
>
>Very worrying if true (possibly a UK only thing?)
>
>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.
>
>Does anyone have more details?

The last book I read took a lot longer than usual to show up on the
online content management screen. But it downloaded just fine.

And, yes, copying the book locally is an option.=20

There has been a steady decline in this:
-- at one time, you could specify for each book which device you
wanted it downloaded automatically to
-- then you could at least specify the one Default Device that would
get each an every one, whether you wanted it there or not.
-- for some time now it seems to be making up it's own mind, perhaps
on the "Oldest Kindle First" principal
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"