Amazon will stop allowing Kindle book downloads on your PC soon
From February 26, 2025, Amazon deletes a functionality of its website allowing you to download books purchased on a computer, then copy them manually to a To light up On USB. It is a feature of which many Kindle users probably do not know, since books can be more easily sent to devices on Wi-Fi, but it is particularly useful for saving purchases or converting them to D ‘Other formats compatible with the non-Kindle E-readers.
There are several reasons why some Kindle users may miss this functionality. It is useful if you do not have access to a Wi-Fi network, and although this is a tedious process, because the books purchased can only be downloaded at a time, there is peace of mind for Know that you have offline copies of all your books.
This does not happen frequently, but as Good e-misery Underlines, Amazon has sometimes deleted the books from his online store and removed them remotely from the Kindles or published titles and downloaded new copies to its electronic players. In 2009, the company deleted copies of George Orwell Nineteen-four-four And Animal farmExplaining that the books were wrongly published. More recently, Lots of books by Roald Dahlincluding Charlie and the chocolate factoryhave been replaced by updated copies with a modified language on various platforms of electronic books. This is a reminder that you do not really have the digital content you consume, and without the possibility of saving copies of electronic books, you could lose them entirely if they are prohibited and deleted.
Functionality is also the easiest way to convert books purchased from Amazon to other formats like EPUB which can be used on alternative devices such as Kobo. Books downloaded via the Amazon website are delivered in the old AZW3 format which allows DRM to be easily deleted using various software tools.
The old Kindle models also store books in AZW3 format, and they can be extracted by connecting the device to a computer with a USB cable. But Modern Kindles Use the more recent KFX format (First deployed in 2015) which introduced an improved font rendering, better disposition capacities and a DRM which is almost impossible to get around.
The download function is a postponement of the time when the Kindles did not come with Wi-Fi, allowing users who were also able to take advantage of Amazon’s Cellular Whispernet service to obtain books on their electronic readers . It is always accessible via the Amazon website by accessing your “content library” while connecting to your account. For the books purchased, you select the “More actions” menu, choose “Download and transfer via USB”, select a Kindle device that you have saved and a copy of the book will be downloaded to your computer.
But the contextual window that appears when selecting the download option now includes an additional warning. “From February 26, 2025, the option” Download and transfer via USB “will no longer be available. You can always send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi compatible devices by selecting the “Delivery or delete device” option. »»
Amazon confirmed the deletion of the book download function in a declaration to The penis. “Customers can continue to read books previously downloaded from their Kindle device and access new content via the Kindle, Kindle for Web application, as well as directly via Kindle devices with WiFi capacity,” said the spokesperson from Amazon, Jackie Burke.
Once this feature disappears, you can always manually copy ebook files and other documents to Kindle on USB using Amazon applications or third -party solutions such as Caliber. You just can’t download copies of your books bought on a computer.
Update, February 14: Adding a comment from an Amazon spokesperson.
