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Old 01-07-2022, 05:45 AM   #1
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how can I transfer the progress of my books from one kindle to another?
I just online ordered my kindle 2021 and it'll be here in a few days. In the meantime, I don't use kindle unlimited on my old kindle and prefer to just plug and play and transfer my books from my computer to the kindle directly. Is there a particular folder I'd need to copy from my old to new kindle in order to keep the progress of all my current ebooks intact? thanks!
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If those books were bought on Kindle Store most of them will have DRM protection and you will not be able to just copy the same file from one Kindle device to another.
Not unless you strip the DRM before transferring the files to a new Kindle device.
Amazon's DRM locks the files to a particular device (based on device's serial number IIRC).

So the choices are either re-download those books (in batches of 10? books at a time) from your Amazon account or deDRM the existing copies (if those aren"t in KFX format ) taken from the old Kindle.

As always all book files are in "/documents" folder...
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I believe this thread answered that question.
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If those books were bought on Kindle Store most of them will have DRM protection and you will not be able to just copy the same file from one Kindle device to another.
Not unless you strip the DRM before transferring the files to a new Kindle device.
Amazon's DRM locks the files to a particular device (based on device's serial number IIRC).

So the choices are either re-download those books (in batches of 10? books at a time) from your Amazon account or deDRM the existing copies (if those aren"t in KFX format ) taken from the old Kindle.

As always all book files are in "/documents" folder...
...but if they were bought on Amazon, the book progress will be stored, so all that needs to be done is to download the books from Amazon to the new Kindle.

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