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Originally Posted by geekmaster
That sounds too easy. For DRM books, do you need to select which of your registered devices those books will be tranfered to? I have not done that, but it seems logical.
The original question was "kindle to kindle" (which occupied my thoughts in a literal way), not using the landlords computer. I am used to dealing with things at the "bits and bytes" level, as local as possible, from the bottom up. I spend more time at github than amazon. But indeed, your suggested top-down approach certainly makes life easier if he can use his landlord's Mac as you described.
Using Calibre and AA require downloading it and its dependencies, so just downloading the books using this amazon feature (of which I was not previously aware) makes much more sense, and that will be my new recommendation in cases like this.
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You can also use the version of the ApprenticeAlf tools which is distributed as an OSX app relying only on the python installation that comes with OSX.
Or the Windows drop target (a Windows wrapper around the regular old cross-platform python/tk) which unfortunately requires a separate installation of Python since Microsoft does not see fit to provide you with widely-used scripting libraries as a matter of course.
calilbre is not strictly required, it is just the easiest method especially if you already use it.
So, while borrowing the landlord's Macbook to "Download And Transfer Via USB" will work, it could be done entirely without any internet other than the 3G Kindle Keyboard.
A one-time download of the AA tools archive (2.16 MB for the whole set).
If your operating system is Windows:
A one-time download of the Python2 for Windows installer (17.8 MB)
OR
A one-time download of calibre (weighing in at 61.1 MB).
And you could download the book using Amazon's fee 3G connectivity, strip the DRM from
your book, using a non-internet-connected computer, and transfer it to the newer Kindle.
Amazon doesn't drop compatibility with old formats (they just try sending the new ones if supported).