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notimp · 11-11-2015, 03:07 AM

@HarryT: Maybe you have a point there. (Allthough not in regards to this being openly discussed as one of the few options to still get the legacy file format, and that people should do that.)

Still - how many quoteunquote normal Kindle users are actively using it? (Get out your PC, log into Amazon, go to manage your Kindle, search for the Book you bought, look for the submenu item to download the book to your device, select your Kindle, downlod the file, get your USB cable out, connect to the Kindle --

and if you dont do it now - Amazon could, at any time, flip the switch that makes those files still turn up as azw3's, at which point all books you havent done this with - are "lost " in that sense.

As supposed to the way it worked before - where you could entice people to do the switch to calibre without loosing anything, at any point in time - because, there was no race against time against the distribution of a format designed to...

Fill out the rest in your head.

Also, please dont ignore the rest of the points I brought forward.

11-11-2015, 03:07 AM	#218
notimp Addict Posts: 248 Karma: 892441 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: K2i	@HarryT: Maybe you have a point there. (Allthough not in regards to this being openly discussed as one of the few options to still get the legacy file format, and that people should do that.) Still - how many quoteunquote normal Kindle users are actively using it? (Get out your PC, log into Amazon, go to manage your Kindle, search for the Book you bought, look for the submenu item to download the book to your device, select your Kindle, downlod the file, get your USB cable out, connect to the Kindle -- and if you dont do it now - Amazon could, at any time, flip the switch that makes those files still turn up as azw3's, at which point all books you havent done this with - are "lost " in that sense. As supposed to the way it worked before - where you could entice people to do the switch to calibre without loosing anything, at any point in time - because, there was no race against time against the distribution of a format designed to... Fill out the rest in your head. Also, please dont ignore the rest of the points I brought forward. Last edited by notimp; 11-11-2015 at 03:10 AM.