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Originally Posted by jhowell
Kindle firmware version 5.16.3 now available for 10th and 11th generation Kindles and Kindle Scribe. No update for older models.
Other changes discovered: - Connect Kindle Scribe over USB using Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) instead of emulating a disk drive.
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Indeed:
The UI displayed on Kindle when connected to USB has changed, and you need to tap the Disconnect button to disconnect. It no longer appears as a drive in Finder.
Apparently
Android File Transfer is now required on Mac (sigh) to transfer content.
Calibre still detects it, but
Eject this device no longer works (closes the calibre connection but leaves it connected to Mac), and
Show books seems to show things it didn't used to (things in
Internal Storage/), and what it shows as In Library matches some of these
Internal Storage/ items.
Send to device seems to work. No doubt we are going to need a calibre update to fix some of this.
It looks like there are alternatives to Android File Transfer, but so far I have found no 'native' solutions. It's encouraging that calibre doesn't need anything extra, at least for Kindle. I guess I'll install AFT and see how that goes. I really do want some sort of scripting access.
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macOS has built-in support for MTP (through the application "Image Capture"[27] but no (third-party) drivers to mount MTP devices as drives.
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Windows has had MTP support built in since Windows Vista. But Kindle will no longer mount as a drive letter, but rather as a 'named device'. I have not tried it out myself yet.
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Windows does not assign drive letters or UNC pathnames to devices connected via MTP; instead, they only appear as named devices in MTP-aware applications such as Windows Explorer. Compared to devices that implement USB mass storage, such devices cannot be accessed programmatically by scripts or normal Windows programs that depend on drive letters or UNC paths. Instead, files must be manipulated using Windows Explorer or applications with specially written MTP support.
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(emphasis added)