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Originally Posted by JChip
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I'm guess I"m not talking about converting or even deDRMing. I'm talking about getting the atcual file itself. It's tedious. Maybe it's only this many steps because I own a Mac and iPad, and not a Kindle or Windows?
For Kobo, Nook and Sony, I can download the ePub file directly from their website, open up my Downloads folder and there it is.
Kindle files are quite a few more steps just to get the actual book file. And it got harder on the Mac in the last year. I have to open up Kindle for Mac, download the book(s) in question to the app (deliver to desktop never works on my account), and then go digging for the file. Kindle for Mac now dumps them into a hidden file folder buried deep in the operating system. It used to put them in a folder in the Documents folder, so I eventually got smart and created a shortcut to the hidden files.
Since the Kindle books are all named by their ASIN, I have to cross-reference to the Amazon website for the code for which file I'm looking for. And it's not just one file - Kindle for Mac downloads 4-5 files for every book - .azw, .mbp, .apnx, and .phl and .lpr files all show up in that folder.
To make it easier to spot the new stuff, I color code the ones I've already imported, but it's still a big file folder to look through, since Kindle for Mac keeps those extra files for every book I've ever bought from them - even if you've removed the book itself from the app (all it does is remove the .azw file).
So if price is equal, I just buy from one of the ePub vendors.
I mostly get the freebies from Amazon, that aren't free at the ePub vendors. I don't download freebies until after I've read them on my iPad and liked them. 95% of the freebies I've read I'll never read again, so I let them stay on Amazon's servers.