Thread: Kindle for Windows 8 app and Calibre
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Old 04-09-2015, 12:21 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
At one point (and perhaps still) the behavior of the Kindle for PC applications delivered to the PC depended on which version of windows you are running. I installed a working K4PC (books arrive in azw files not fragments) on my windows 8.1 machine by downloading the install file on a Win7 machine and transferring it to the laptop.

The K4PC version here might work for you.
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
Last year when I installed K4PC on my Win8.1 machine the version supplied by Amazon was Metro and only Metro. It also contained the "new" book storage where books were partitioned, meaning that I could not use the Alf tools on the books I purchased. Downloading a Win7 version in the fashion I described got me a non-Metro app that downloaded the books as azw into /kindle. My scheme works only if one has access to a Win7 machine.

The OP indicates that he is having a problem with the app as supplied by Amazon, in that "some books" are downloaded (can only be downloaded?) using the partioning scheme and not the single file scheme. I have never had that problem on my laptop with the many books I have purchased.

Couple these two observed behaviors together led me to postulate that the K4PC app currently supplied by Amazon conditions its behavior depending on what Windows version it is running under. I could be wrong. I have no interest in doing the experiment and potentially breaking something that works.
There is a difference between running the "Kindle for PC" win32 application, and the "Kindle for Windows 8" Metro app...
Just because you couldn't find a Kindle for PC installer (because Amazon) does not mean Kindle for PC displays the same behavior as Kindle for Windows 8.

I cannot imagine why there would be any code in the "Kindle for PC" win32 application that would arbitrarily change how it works, based on what Windows kernel it runs on (or other pointless windows-version-detector used).
And downloading the files on one computer and transferring it to a Windows 8 computer, or downloading from alternative and might I add highly shady sources (yes, CNET and all the other sites which redistribute executables after adding spamware is a terrible way to download something that is already available from the developer website in unsullied form), is not going to change the actual code you are running.

Assuming you correctly use the official Amazon download link I provided, which is admittedly hard to track down.
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