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Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Cat@ponder.cat to c/technology@lemmy.world

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On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued "Download and Transfer via USB" feature to archive your Kindle library.

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[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My Kobo e-reader is pretty nice and takes any ol e-pub file just fine. And Calibre, a third party software for managing ebooks, has a plugin to crack Kindle files. Just sayin

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And Calibre, a third party software for managing ebooks, has a plugin to crack Kindle files

Which requires being able to download those files from Amazon. Which is what this post is all about, Amazon not allowing you to download the files anymore.

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago

I was thinking along the lines of if you already had them downloaded and wanted to switch off to something else

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And Calibre, a third party software for managing ebooks, has a plugin to crack Kindle files.

Unfortunately currently broken for the latest version of Kindle for PC, which switched to a different encryption scheme. It also uses KFX file format that nobody likes, which fortunately can be converted to EPUB with another plugin, but de-DRMing doesn't seem to work right now. It still seems to work for titles in AZW3/MOBI that didn't get DRM update or didn't have DRM in the first place.