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Originally Posted by Jean
AnemicOak asked for a list of books that will no longer download via USB from manage my kindle to my K1...
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War Brides by Helen Bryan
The Martian by Andy Weir
Opening Up by Lauren Dane
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Blood Engines by T. A. Pratt
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
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I checked the above books and they are all available for download to my old Kindle 2 which like the Kindle 1 doesn't support newer formats like AZW3/KF8 or KFX. It will let me send them straight to the device or transfer via USB.
Under "Available on these devices" on the store page for each book it does indeed not list the 1st gen Kindle but does list the second gen.
Makes me wonder what's up exactly. Are they just slowing dropping support for the K1 on books because they can or is there an actual technical reason? Seems quite odd as there haven't been any announcements about wholesale support for the device ending or anything. I don't necessarily expect a company to continue supporting devices forever or anything, but changes in status should be announced at the very least and Amazon's usually pretty good about things like that.
Some of those books have recently come out and I know I haven't gotten any update notifications on them so if they worked once on the K1 they still should. Wonder if it's more of a glitch/oversight to do with the "Available on these devices" and them erroneously leaving the K1 out of the list for some reason.
I wonder if an email to
kindle-feedback@amazon.com on this would get any useful feedback.
EDIT: A quick Google finds these posts...
https://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle/...TxSMFNJ6ODOYVQ
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-f...DiscussionsNew
One quote that may be of use/interest...
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Success! K1 Content Manager does provide a back door way to retrieve 'incompatible' books.
Details:
- Bought an e-book at Amazon.com. Publication date Oct, 2014 (not a brand-new title at all). Product page has an 'Available on these devices' link, no Gen 1 listed, 'Kindle' points to Baby K, as previously noted.
- Delivered to default device (my phone)
- Tried 'Deliver to another' - K1 not listed. Can't get there from here.
At Manage Your Content and Devices, new title is present as expected:
- 'Deliver to' has K1 greyed out. Can't get there from here.
- USB download says no devices compatible with content. No way to transfer new book to K1 from the Amazon website.
On the K1:
- Turn on the radio, 'Sync and Check for New Items.'
- Nothing new shows up in list of titles on the device.
- Open on-board Content Manager. New title shows as present at Amazon.
- Select new book, tell Kindle 'Move to SD Card.' 'Move to Kindle' would be OK, too, but I have more room on the card.
- Transfer successful, book opens.
It looks more and more to me like the only incompatibility here is Amazon programming their database to disable transfers to original Kindles. Thanks, FoundQuilting, for pointing me in the right direction!
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