Thread: Amazon forcing Kindle for PC update
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Old 11-25-2020, 11:59 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by binaryhermit View Post
Already 85 posts about this at
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=334278

Theere seems to be a solution at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=14 but as someone who doesn't use Windows or even Intel-compatible hardware much...
That's a clever fix. Thanks for posting it. I'm on a Mac, and how I get around this issue is to run Kindle for Mac 1.17.x off of a disk image. It can't be written to, so after a slow startup where the software tries to install the upgrade, the software launches as usual.
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