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jhowell · 09-03-2023, 09:43 AM

Thanks for that.

So it says that support will be ending for the old version. It says nothing yet about whether or not it will continue to function or for how long.

Also, it does not say that both the old and new apps have to be open at the same time to transfer collections. Just that opening 1.40.1 or higher will trigger the transfer of collections.

The old Kindle for Mac app did not support cloud collections shared across apps and devices. The new one, being Kindle for iOS, does support them. So the extra step done by opening 1.40.1 is to transfer the local collections into the cloud.

That transfer of local collections has the potential of creating duplicate cloud collections so some cleanup of cloud collections may be needed afterwards.

09-03-2023, 09:43 AM	#4
jhowell Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,101 Karma: 92190113 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Charlottesville, VA Device: Kindles	Thanks for that. So it says that support will be ending for the old version. It says nothing yet about whether or not it will continue to function or for how long. Also, it does not say that both the old and new apps have to be open at the same time to transfer collections. Just that opening 1.40.1 or higher will trigger the transfer of collections. The old Kindle for Mac app did not support cloud collections shared across apps and devices. The new one, being Kindle for iOS, does support them. So the extra step done by opening 1.40.1 is to transfer the local collections into the cloud. That transfer of local collections has the potential of creating duplicate cloud collections so some cleanup of cloud collections may be needed afterwards.