MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

WillW · 07-04-2019, 02:56 AM

The old kindle app installed fine even at the first try, before I used the app cleaner, but Amazon wouldn't have any of it. I needed to de-register all my kindle devices from Amazon devices management page - kindle for mac, kindle for windows, and my kindle device, and second versions of these! Then it registered kindle 1.17 fine. I also deleted all Amazon ebook content from the devices management page, also from the cloud. All my books are backed up, twice, so nothing was lost. A clean slate.
I've kept the 1.17 dmg file of course. I already had it somewhere in the bowels of some back-up somewhere...

PS - No, Calibre can't do it even with newest Alf plugins. The kindle version has to be pre 1.19 I think. May be different on Windows (I'm on Mac) but I doubt it.

PPS - I'd assumed so, but also assumed Kobo store not as paranoid as Amazon so epub format not constantly updated to prevent moving books around with Calibre.

07-04-2019, 02:56 AM	#10
WillW Connoisseur Posts: 75 Karma: 20 Join Date: Jul 2019 Device: Kindle Oasis	The old kindle app installed fine even at the first try, before I used the app cleaner, but Amazon wouldn't have any of it. I needed to de-register all my kindle devices from Amazon devices management page - kindle for mac, kindle for windows, and my kindle device, and second versions of these! Then it registered kindle 1.17 fine. I also deleted all Amazon ebook content from the devices management page, also from the cloud. All my books are backed up, twice, so nothing was lost. A clean slate. I've kept the 1.17 dmg file of course. I already had it somewhere in the bowels of some back-up somewhere... PS - No, Calibre can't do it even with newest Alf plugins. The kindle version has to be pre 1.19 I think. May be different on Windows (I'm on Mac) but I doubt it. PPS - I'd assumed so, but also assumed Kobo store not as paranoid as Amazon so epub format not constantly updated to prevent moving books around with Calibre. Last edited by WillW; 07-04-2019 at 02:59 AM.