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What's concerning is Amazon's lack of transparency and vaguely worded announcements. I have a Kindle DX and a DXG which I know are being cut off because no WiFi. But I don't know about the Paperwhite 3. It has WiFi, but it is unsupported by Amazon (not actively developed). Amazon's notices do not specify what constitutes a "supported Kindle device". |
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Kindle Oasis 9th generation here. You need to install the KFX plugin on calibre. See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=361503 for its download. What I do is buy the book on Amazon, then wait for it to show up in the Library on the Kindle (bottom right on the screen; took me a while to notice it since I never use my Kindle), then tap the 3 dots thing for the book and select Download. Using their Content web page and the Deliver or Remove from Device button doesn't work for me. You'll also need the DeDRM plugin if you want to convert the book to EPUB, or maybe it's needed regardless. After it shows up on your Kindle, connect it to your PC, then find the books down in the Kindle's Documents folder and drag them into the Calibre window. I then convert the books to EPUB and transfer them to my Kobo. (After all these years of not using my Kindle I'm still amazed at how horrid the Kindle UI is compared to the Kobo.) Last edited by hobnail; 02-19-2025 at 02:55 PM. |
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The impending removal of Download & Transfer is just one indication of Amazon's ongoing seriousness about keeping their customers from having control over their books. |
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People here are understandably ultra sensitive to the implications for DRM removal and linking it to this move, and assuming the worst case. Vague messaging is nothing new when marketing a brand, and isn't informing us of anything one way or the other. Support for any Amazon device (to me) includes continuing access to Amazon services, as well as customer support. In the case of Kindles, they are clear about which devices are guaranteed software updates and for how long. Amazon announced D&T was going away, a few weeks in advance, to customers that were actually using this feature. This is of concern to a very small percentage of people purchasing Kindle books, many or most of whom do not even have Kindles or Fires. It is not the big deal we make of it here. Access to Amazon's services are what Amazon devices are designed for (Kindle, Fire, Echo/Alexa), and why they continue to make devices. They have not pulled the plug on a single one of these. Fire Phone can still be registered and connect, even though they don't make phones any more, and it has zero trade-in value. Changing this long standing practice would be a much bigger deal. It will take more than 'vague messaging' to change my 'prior' on this. Last edited by tomsem; 02-19-2025 at 04:02 PM. |
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Registering older devices is a bit of an issue, as you must enable and configure two-factor authentication (2FA) on your Amazon account, then disable it. The registration attempt from your older Kindle with your Amazon username and password will then generate a 2FA token that will be sent to you in whatever way your 2FA had been configured (e-mail, SMS, etc.), and you must then register again with your Amazon username but use the 2FA token (6-digit number) as the password. An alternate that sometimes works is to keep 2FA enabled on the account, and append the token to your normal password. |
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It's how they are interpreting that. I'm interpreting that as the WiFi Kindles are going to be supported. I don't feel Amazon is dropping older WiFi Kindles any time soon given that K4PC downloads mostly KFX and there would be no way to download eBooks to those Kindles. That would be removing perfectly good Kindles for no good reason.
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I chose a random book, downloaded through wifi, plugged the kindle into my pc and brought up Calibre. Told Calibre to show only what was on the device. Saw the newly downloaded volume, and told Calibre to copy to library. It did and I could read the book in Calibre's viewer. I do have Callibre set to convert anything new to epub, if it isn't already. Epubs tend to behave better, and if anything needs editing I can edit it, where I can't edit a kfx file. |
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Or was that Broadband over Power Line? Below Poverty Level/Line? Birthplace? Barclay's Premier League? Burlington Public Library? Bloomingdale Public Library? Billerica Public Library? Brimfield Public Library ? Bethpage Public Library? Bloomsburg Public Library? Boston Public Library? Brooklyn Public Library? Binary Product Lattice? And a few pages more of BPL acronyms. And sadly(?), I could find no evidence that any of the BPL library acronyms is copyrighted or trademarked. Last edited by DNSB; 02-19-2025 at 05:45 PM. |
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The BPL exchange is ended. Thanks.
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I was asked this question elsewhere but has anyone had any success importing a KFX ebook directly from the /documents/Downloads/Items01 directory on a Kindle? One acquaintance wants to do this without needing to use calibre though I attempted to explain why it's unlikely to work.
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Adding a request that members stop both baiting and rising to the bait. It's predictable and tedious.
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