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Originally Posted by notimp
@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.
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To go with what HarryT said, in the unusual circumstance where someone is responsible and decides to back up their books in calibre, calibre warns you that KFX is not able to be understood, and helpfully suggests you download your books from Manage Your Kindle.
And KFX is no more likely to become the
only available choice than KF8 is likely to receive new, unbreakable DRM.
(Either way, you're screwed.)
Which means... that you should backup your books immediately!
There has NEVER been a guarantee that you will be able to download them later. Many MR members can tell you about the books they lost when their bookstore
went out of business!!!
And... as soon as Amazon stops allowing that, IF they stop allowing that, we will all drop Amazon like a hot potato and find some other source of books.
Or, as per the purpose of this thread, someone will find it worthwhile to invest the time to reverse-engineer KFX.
In which case we won't drop Amazon, because we are still able to come to a mutually beneficial business agreement.
...But until KFX is
needed, I'm not sure I really expect that it will be reverse-engineered.
There is lower-hanging fruit.