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From: "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Amazon to remove download/transfer via USB option for ebooks?
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 07:22:11 -0000 (UTC)
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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.


Brian