Dealing with Kindle ebooks in calibre

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Originally Posted by Sirtel

I can see it, easily. The majority of their customers read in apps, those still reading on ancient Kindles only are probably a very small minority.

Disabling Download and Transfer caused a backlash too. Did Amazon care? Nope.

Indeed, they could ditch all Kindle HW or just PW1 and older.

But curiously the DXG still works to get ebooks from Amazon (though only in mobi/KF7 rather than azw3/KF8 or KFX) because I still have 2G (GSM-EDGE) here, although the 3G is gone. Worked last week.

So they also simply might not bother. It's work to cut stuff off.

[MegDreamsofBooks]

Originally Posted by Amalthia

I think this latest update to the Amazon DRM is the straw that broke this camel's back. I'm tired of trying to find a work-around to add my legally purchased ebooks to Calibre so I can convert the file to epub to read on my Pocketbook reader.

I've decided to no longer purchase ebooks from Amazon. Too bad for those that aren't selling at Kobo, or have their ebooks available at their public library.

I made the same decision this week. I had already reduced my Amazon ebook purchases to only the authors I love that weren’t available elsewhere, and I’ve been getting most of my books from Kobo, Smashwords, and Google Play except for a few exclusive authors.

But now that it’s getting even more complicated to download my legally purchased books from Amazon, I’ll finish off the 2 series from 2 authors I’m currently reading (1 or 2 books left, each) and no more Amazon purchases after that.

I probably will keep my Kindle Unlimited subscription and continue to read those in the Kindle app, because when I get in a binge reading mood KU has more volume and variety than my local library and I’m definitely getting my money’s worth there.

Luckily, a lot of KU authors are realizing this is happening, and they’re starting to find ways to offer their books for sale outside of Amazon for limited periods of time which means I can still get most of my KU authors elsewhere as long as I pay attention to their announcements (I set up an email address just for signing up for author newsletters.)

[Ma'am-I-Am]

Just a little aside here because it might help someone move on from Amazon.
I use a free browser add-on called Library Extension, which (as the name implies) tells you if the book you're looking at on, say, Amazon or Goodreads, is available at your local libraries. It got even more useful when they added Kobo Plus to the choices. libraryextention dot com