Thread: Weird reboot issue with Kindle paperwhite
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Old 09-23-2021, 03:48 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Quaxo76 View Post
The USB transfer worked perfectly. Now I'm curious, what made the Kindle crash? It was not the downloading process, because the crash happened after the download completed. What does the Kindle do to a file after downloading it, that doesn't need to be done if the file is transferred via USB instead?
Direct 2G/3G/4G or WiFi transfer from Amazon to modern Kindles uses KFX format & files. A Download to PC is KF8 format. A really old Kindle will use KF7 in either case.

Could be a KFX related bug. Also KFX adds DRM even when publisher asks for none.
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