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Old 02-11-2017, 02:07 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by jselby View Post
Is there a way to get these books without the in-motion features? I know I can download them for my kindle e-ink and they should be excluded, but can I buy an edition without the features or somehow specify that I don't want them when downloading to my phone/tablet?
I had previously purchased Wool and now the same ASIN points to the Kindle in Motion version. It showed up for me as an "Update available" in "Manage Your Content & Devices" on the Amazon website. I assume that if I had automatic updates enabled then it would have just updated to Kindle in Motion automatically. I don't see any way to get the original version of the book.

On my Android device it downloads with the "in motion" features enabled, but it gives you the option to turn off "Show media" in the "Aa" menu. This makes it display like a regular book. However, it doesn't reduce the storage consumed.

This book eats up a lot of space:
  • It occupies 856MB of storage on my Android device as a set of KFX files.
  • Using "Download & transfer via USB" targeted to my Kindle delivered a 41MB .azw3 (KF8 format) file.
  • Downloading the book using Kindle for PC 1.19 delivered both a 41MB .azw file (KF8 format) and a 497 MB .azw.res file.
  • Sending it directly to my Kindle resulted in a 2MB .azw3 file along with a 25MB .azw6 file.

For comparison Wool used to be delivered as a 711KB file in MOBI format.
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