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Old 03-10-2016, 10:23 AM   #511
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I'm buying almost exclusively from Kobo at this point. And reading exclusively with Mantano. The conversion from Kindle to epub is certainly simple enough for me, but as time goes on, I find myself less and less interested in diddling my purchases before reading them.

And since they (Kobo) seemed to have stopped automatically making all EPUB3s into unADE-able kepubs, I haven't run into a kepub-only book for a long time. Which means I have very little need for a desktop application in my purchase/read/archive workflow.

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Old 03-10-2016, 10:38 AM   #512
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Just another anecdotal account: I didn't buy much from Amazon back in the day when I was all epub, but once I came around to Alf because it was too inconvenient not to have all mycurrrent books on all my devices I bought quite a bit. If future purchases can't be put on my Kobos, that's the end of that, though; I've not yet transitioned to Kindle (although I have no doubt I'll be there eventually, as Kindle will be the last man standing IRT e-ink devices).

I'm also on the verge of a new computer. For various reasons including this, I should keep Old Bessie running, but still, quelle inconvenience.

Funny. What with Kobo's going over to VIP-only discounts and Amazon's cracking down on de-DRMing, I may not need this thread any longer. Oh, the irony! My overbuying in recent years is looking like a better and better investment.
I don't see Kindle as the last man standing in electronic ink devices as being even the most remote possibility.
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Old 03-10-2016, 02:15 PM   #513
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Does anyone know if it's possible to copy an installed version of K4PC from one PC to another to avoid these problems? The reason I ask is that I'm about to buy a new PC, and it would be major pain not to have a K4PC installation I couldn't use in my eBook buying workflow.
Could you not still download and transfer by USB?
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Old 03-10-2016, 02:31 PM   #514
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Could you not still download and transfer by USB?
I could, but it's a lot more work.
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Old 03-10-2016, 02:48 PM   #515
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Could you not still download and transfer by USB?
I couldn't as I don't own a Kindle eink device. I'm starting to feel a bit twitchy again about DRM developments. I really hope Amazon isn't going to decide they don't want me to buy ebooks from them anymore.
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Old 03-10-2016, 02:59 PM   #516
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I couldn't as I don't own a Kindle eink device. I'm starting to feel a bit twitchy again about DRM developments. I really hope Amazon isn't going to decide they don't want me to buy ebooks from them anymore.
Pick up a used Kindle Keyboard, here's one available right now for just $18.75 and download your purchases via USB for the Kindle Keyboard. Then copy the downloaded file to Calibre. It's really not a lot of work at all.

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That would be because they were in KFX format, which Calibre can't handle.

Ah, thanks! They were indeed in that format. I didn't realize calibre didn't do KFX. Like I said, though, downloading the books from Amazon straight to my pc is a workaround for that.
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...Oh, the irony! My overbuying in recent years is looking like a better and better investment.

Tell me about it!
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Pick up a used Kindle Keyboard, here's one available right now for just $18.75 and download your purchases via USB for the Kindle Keyboard. Then copy the downloaded file to Calibre. It's really not a lot of work at all.
Thanks for trying to help, but no, if it ever does come to Decision Time I won't reward Amazon for poor behaviour (from my standpoint). On principle I'd buy elsewhere ... that's if there still is an 'elsewhere' by then, of course

As someone else already said today, thank goodness for that huge TBR stash I already have.
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Ah, thanks! They were indeed in that format. I didn't realize calibre didn't do KFX. Like I said, though, downloading the books from Amazon straight to my pc is a workaround for that.
Yes, that gets you the book in KF8 format, which Calibre can handle.
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I couldn't as I don't own a Kindle eink device. I'm starting to feel a bit twitchy again about DRM developments. I really hope Amazon isn't going to decide they don't want me to buy ebooks from them anymore.
Same here. My kindle Touch had a fatal accident a few weeks ago, and I worry that the way things are developing it is a matter of time before we have to have Kindle eInk devices if we want to read on anything other than computers and phones/devices that have the Kindle app.

The Kindle app for Android gets worse with every update, by the way. It's embarrassing.
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Not sure if this helps or not, the Mac App Store in Canada has K4Mac 1.12 and the Amazon.com website still seems to distribute K4Mac 1.13. In fact I had to do a special search to even find a link to K4Mac 1.15 on the Amazon website.
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Same here. My kindle Touch had a fatal accident a few weeks ago, and I worry that the way things are developing it is a matter of time before we have to have Kindle eInk devices if we want to read on anything other than computers and phones/devices that have the Kindle app.

The Kindle app for Android gets worse with every update, by the way. It's embarrassing.
I don't think your kindle needs to work to be able to use the download for sideload option. Just don't deregister it.
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It does need to work for me to read on it.
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It does need to work for me to read on it.
Really? Sorry, I was only talking about using it to get a copy of the book to remove drm.
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