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Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 1 month 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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[โ€“] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 14 points 1 month 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.

[โ€“] Rolder@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

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