Starting February 26, 2025, Amazon will be able to remove features from the website, download the purchased books to your computer and copy them manually to your Kindle on USB. This is a feature that many Kindle users probably don’t notice, given that they can send to their devices more easily via Wi-Fi, but they can back up purchases and compatible with non-kindle E- It helps to convert to other forms of sexuality. reader.
There are several reasons why some Kindle users may miss this feature. This is useful if you don’t have access to your Wi-Fi network. It’s a boring process as you can’t download the books you purchase one at a time, but it’s a relief to know that you have an offline copy of all the books.
It doesn’t happen frequently, but as good e-readers point out, Amazon sometimes removes books from their online store, remotely removes them from Kindles or edited titles, and then copy them to e-readers I’ve re-uploaded. In 2009, the company deleted copies of George Orwell’s 195 eight people and animal farms, explaining that the book was published incorrectly. More recently, many of Roald Dahl’s books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, have been replaced with updated copies with modified languages on various e-book platforms. It reminds me that I don’t own much of the digital content I actually consume. If you don’t have the ability to back up copies of e-books, you could lose them completely if they were banned and deleted.
This feature is also the easiest way to convert books purchased from Amazon that can be used on alternative devices such as Kobo into other formats such as Epub. Books downloaded from Amazon’s website are delivered in the old AZW3 format that allows you to easily remove DRM using a variety of software tools.
Older Kindle models store books in AZW3 format, so you can extract them by connecting the device to your computer with a USB cable. However, Modern Kindles has introduced improved font rendering, better layout features and DRM using the new KFX format (first deployed in 2015).
The download function has been a carry-over from the time when Kindles didn’t come with Wi-Fi, allowing users who were unable to enter e-book readers by using Amazon’s Cellular Whispernet service. Masu. You can access it from the Amazon website by logging in to your account and accessing the Content Library. To select a book with the “More Actions” menu, select “Download & Transfer via USB” and select the registered Kindle device, and a copy of the book will be downloaded to your computer.
However, the popup that appears when you select the download option contains additional warnings. “From February 26th, 2025, the “Download & Transfer via USB” option will no longer be available. You can select the “Broadcast or Remove from Device” option to send Kindle books to Wi-Fi enabled devices. ”
Once this feature is gone, you can manually copy e-book files and other documents to Kindles on USB using Amazon apps and third-party solutions like Caliber. You cannot download copies of purchased books to your computer.
This feature reached out to Amazon asking for comment on why this feature was removed but didn’t respond immediately.
