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Originally Posted by Crucis
Kindle for PC Win app.
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Now I'm old and curmudgeonly enough to proclaim that "apps are, grudgingly, for phones; if it's on a real machine with a full keyboard, it's a program," but that's probably not helpful. "Which version" is important, though, because:
* For books first published
at Amazon on or after April 22, 2025 (including "first Kindle editions" of some really old books), Kindle for PC will not properly download them unless the Kindle for PC version is 2.7 or later. If you try with an earlier version of Kindle for PC, the program will halt then tell you that you need to update it because your old version doesn't support certain "features" of the e-book. But...
* The various methods publicly discussed here for importing Kindle books into Calibre will fail after Kindle for PC version 2.4 (or 2.41 depending on how lucky you are).
And it's actually annoyingly hard to keep Kindle for PC from automatically updating to a "current" version, even when you uncheck "automatic updates" inside of Kindle for PC; there are various messages elsewhere on this forum on that problem. The only method that's been consistently successful for me is running Kindle for PC from a batch file that keeps deleting the temporary update folder during program start; YMMV.