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Originally Posted by Strether
I'm trying to work up enough courage to try this before updating to Catalina. But I'm puzzled about the download instructions. When I've bought a book and opened Kindle for Mac, it automatically downloads the book to the Kindle library. Calibre automatically picks it up from that folder and adds it to my Calibre library. I don't see anything in any Kindle for Mac menus that allows me to change this behavior so that I can control the download of the book.
Jim
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You probably have K4Mac set as your default device, which is triggering the automatic download.
If you log into your Amazon account and go to "Your Content and Devices" > "Devices", you can select another device to be your Default Device. Then new purchases shouldn't automatically download to K4Mac (but will then automatically download to the new Default Device).
Or, on K4Mac, you can simply remove the download then re-download it whenever you want. Go to Library > Downloaded then right-click on a book and select "Remove from Device". Then go back to All and and right-click Download without double-clicking on the book.
I don't have Calibre set to automatically pick up anything in my Kindle folder, so I'm not sure how that works. If you remove a book downloaded to K4Mac then re-download it, will Calibre automatically pick up the re-downloaded book so you have 2 copies in Calibre? I don't know.
If you decide to update to Catalina, make sure you've got K4Mac 1.26.1 working on Mojave (or whatever macOS you're on)
before updating to Catalina!!!