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Originally Posted by 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.
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That happens for some books. Amazon has added features to KFX format over time and checks the features present in each book against those supported by the reading software before actually downloading it.
Would you mind sharing the ASIN of the book? It may be possible to determine exactly what "feature" is causing the problem.
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Originally Posted by Jaws
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.
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That is to be expected since the book did not actually download.
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Originally Posted by Jaws
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.
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It may just be a coincidence. This has been going on for a long time with various books based on their internal formatting.
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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.
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Amazon is again in the process of tightening the security of Kindle ebooks and I fear things are going to become worse. I am just unsure that this particular case is an example of that.