[Jaws]

Potential roadblock ahead! Amazon is trying to force K4PC users to update; this evening, I tried to sync a library book — a 25-year-old novel that has been out of print for a number of years — and K4PC showed the name of the book in the download area, but gave a message indicating that "features" in the book require an upgrade to K4PC. Digging into the K4PC folder, it downloaded only the title, the cover thumbnail, and a short hash string; it didn't even create a folder with the ASIN as its name.

That it is the first of May is probably not at all a coincidence. I will not install a new version of software due to undisclosed "features" of a 25-year-old novel... especially as buggy as every other K4PC release to enable undisclosed "features" has been.

I read library e-books on my laptop because I can get around some of the shiny marketing nonsense (and resize things) much more easily. I will be entirely unsurprised if even older library books have the same problem with new downloads. This, of course, is just foreshadowing for what Amazon will do shortly (if it hasn't already!) with newly-purchased items, or even for new downloads of previously purchased items.