Amazon ends allowing downloads

jgaiser · 02-16-2025, 07:43 AM

"Starting February 26, 2025, the “Download & Transfer via USB” option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the “Deliver or Remove from Device” option. Learn more about managing downloads"

Get your books before it's too late.

Quoth · 02-16-2025, 08:10 AM

Ah, you've been away?

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=366171

and two other threads.

Dr. Drib · 02-16-2025, 08:18 AM

I say we go for four! (Not that there's anything wrong with that!)

Why? Well, why not! After all, we already have these:

The four Beatles
The four Ghostbusters
The four kids from South Park
The Golden Girls
The A-Team
The Marauders (from the Harry Potter books)
The G4 nations
Four blood groups
Four types of teeth (in humans/primates)
Faces on Mt. Rushmore
The Four Seasons
Four letters that, properly arranged, are taboo here!

jgaiser · 02-16-2025, 08:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quoth

Ah, you've been away?

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=366171

and two other threads.

Yes, I've been away. And, darn...

nabsltd · 02-17-2025, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Why? Well, why not! After all, we already have these:

Four words that name another group of 4:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

JSWolf · 02-17-2025, 02:38 PM

I think the most appropriate would be...

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Cactus Chef · 02-17-2025, 03:08 PM

On a related note:

I feel like I need to make a matrix/spreadsheet of what eReaders need what Operating Systems to be able to fully backup your ebooks. My wife has a Nook, and we recently switched her to a Mac, and I thought that you could decrypt the books straight off the device into Calibre like you could with a Kobo, but, no...you need either a rooted Android device or the legacy Windows app which is no longer offered. So for the time being, she's gotta hang onto that aging Windows 10 laptop just to be able to keep liberating her Nook purchases.

Much in the same way that even Windows will have to hang on to an aging version of Kindle for PC to be able to get any of their books decrypted, moving forward, unless they have an old physical Kindle from which to pull the book from.

I guess my point is, the eReader enthusiast community who likes to remove the DRM from their books seems to take it for granted how much this whole setup barely works, and is only one malevolent vendor update away from completely collapsing.

Even Kobo is the current "best-behaved" of the eReader vendors, but only because they haven't updated their DRM scheme in some time. If they changed that tomorrow, we'd basically be completely SOL.

Sirtel · 02-17-2025, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

On a related note:

I feel like I need to make a matrix/spreadsheet of what eReaders need what Operating Systems to be able to fully backup your ebooks. My wife has a Nook, and we recently switched her to a Mac, and I thought that you could decrypt the books straight off the device into Calibre like you could with a Kobo, but, no...you need either a rooted Android device or the legacy Windows app which is no longer offered. So for the time being, she's gotta hang onto that aging Windows 10 laptop just to be able to keep liberating her Nook purchases.

Much in the same way that even Windows will have to hang on to an aging version of Kindle for PC to be able to get any of their books decrypted, moving forward, unless they have an old physical Kindle from which to pull the book from.

I guess my point is, the eReader enthusiast community who likes to remove the DRM from their books seems to take it for granted how much this whole setup barely works, and is only one malevolent vendor update away from completely collapsing.

Even Kobo is the current "best-behaved" of the eReader vendors, but only because they haven't updated their DRM scheme in some time. If they changed that tomorrow, we'd basically be completely SOL.

B&N only sells in the US, so their store isn't relevant to anyone living elsewhere.

And Kobo has two DRM schemes - their own (kepubs) and Adobe (epubs). Both have long since been broken. They'd have to update both of them.

Quoth · 02-17-2025, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I think the most appropriate would be...

The Four Horses of the Apocalypse.

I thought there are five. Though there is a rumour Kaos retired as Ronnie Soak.

ZodWallop · 02-20-2025, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quoth

I thought there are five. Though there is a rumour Kaos retired as Ronnie Soak.

I'm only familiar with Kaos fighting Maxwell Smart and the brave agents of CONTROL.

Quoth · 02-20-2025, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I'm only familiar with Kaos fighting Maxwell Smart and the brave agents of CONTROL.

Though he seemed a bit dumb compared to 99.

I think Kaos is in "The Thief of Time", pretending to be the milkman, Ronnie Soak.

ps67 · 02-20-2025, 02:12 PM

Books are mine*, not property of Amazon, if it is not possible I won't buy kindle ebook anymore.

*I Know, Amazon says that they sell to you the right of reading the ebook on their devices or apps, I don't agree so no more Kindle ebooks.

cfrizz · 02-20-2025, 06:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ps67

Books are mine*, not property of Amazon, if it is not possible I won't buy kindle ebook anymore.

*I Know, Amazon says that they sell to you the right of reading the ebook on their devices or apps, I don't agree so no more Kindle ebooks.

I agree, I get my books from Kobo, and if they stop allowing downloads, I will cease buying books. I have over 2700 books and I love rereading them.

ZodWallop · 02-20-2025, 10:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quoth

Though he seemed a bit dumb compared to 99.

A bit?

DNSB · 02-20-2025, 10:42 PM

Attempted kindness. Suggesting that his IQ was less than that of the average watermelon is so unkind.

02-16-2025, 07:43 AM	#1
jgaiser Omnivorous Posts: 3,283 Karma: 27978909 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Rural NW Oregon Device: Kindle Voyage, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle 3, KPW1	Amazon ends allowing downloads "Starting February 26, 2025, the “Download & Transfer via USB” option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the “Deliver or Remove from Device” option. Learn more about managing downloads" Get your books before it's too late.

02-16-2025, 08:18 AM	#3
Dr. Drib Grand Sorcerer Posts: 45,611 Karma: 60184181 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Peru Device: KINDLE: Oasis 3, Scribe (1st), Matcha; KOBO: Libra 2, Libra Colour	I say we go for four! (Not that there's anything wrong with that!) Why? Well, why not! After all, we already have these: The four Beatles The four Ghostbusters The four kids from South Park The Golden Girls The A-Team The Marauders (from the Harry Potter books) The G4 nations Four blood groups Four types of teeth (in humans/primates) Faces on Mt. Rushmore The Four Seasons Four letters that, properly arranged, are taboo here! Last edited by Dr. Drib; 02-16-2025 at 08:29 AM.

02-17-2025, 02:38 PM	#6
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 80,740 Karma: 150249619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	I think the most appropriate would be... The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Last edited by JSWolf; 02-20-2025 at 02:39 PM.

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Cactus Chef Guru Posts: 682 Karma: 8163192 Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: East Coast, United States Device: Kobo Sage, Kobo Clara HD, Galaxy Tab S5e, Kindle 4th Gen	On a related note: I feel like I need to make a matrix/spreadsheet of what eReaders need what Operating Systems to be able to fully backup your ebooks. My wife has a Nook, and we recently switched her to a Mac, and I thought that you could decrypt the books straight off the device into Calibre like you could with a Kobo, but, no...you need either a rooted Android device or the legacy Windows app which is no longer offered. So for the time being, she's gotta hang onto that aging Windows 10 laptop just to be able to keep liberating her Nook purchases. Much in the same way that even Windows will have to hang on to an aging version of Kindle for PC to be able to get any of their books decrypted, moving forward, unless they have an old physical Kindle from which to pull the book from. I guess my point is, the eReader enthusiast community who likes to remove the DRM from their books seems to take it for granted how much this whole setup barely works, and is only one malevolent vendor update away from completely collapsing. Even Kobo is the current "best-behaved" of the eReader vendors, but only because they haven't updated their DRM scheme in some time. If they changed that tomorrow, we'd basically be completely SOL.

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