Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
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Re: Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
#2The simple solution is to stop buying eBooks from Amazon. Pirate all of your epubs and PDFs so you will always have an offline backup.
If you enjoyed the book buy a hard copy for a friend, relative, book club, etc from a local book store. Amazon doesn't need your money anymore.
Re: Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
#3You don’t even own ebooks on Amazon. You own a license that is set to expire and can be revoked at anytime.
Re: Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
#4This renders my kindle gen 2 useless, as its only connectivity is/was via cellular network which doesn’t work anymore (2g or something). I’ve been having to download and then transfer via usb for years.
Re: Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
#5The simple solution is to stop buying eBooks from Amazon. Pirate all of your epubs and PDFs so you will always have an offline backup. If you enjoyed the book buy a hard copy for a friend, relative, book club, etc from a local book store. Amazon doesn't need your money anymore.
Local libraries often provide free digital access which works on kindle.
Re: Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
#6This is... terrible news. This is primarily how I get books from the library. I found that if you keep the Kindle on Airplane mode and download + transfer them, they never expire.
Nothing malicious. I just can't read books arbitrarily in a 21 day period.
Re: Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
#7The simple solution is to stop buying eBooks from Amazon. Pirate all of your epubs and PDFs so you will always have an offline backup. If you enjoyed the book buy a hard copy for a friend, relative, book club, etc from a local book store. Amazon doesn't need your money anymore.
Your solution hurts authors more than Amazon. Just buy ebooks from somewhere else! Don’t be cheap and pretend it’s principled. I know you say buy a copy if you enjoyed it but that’s not really how commerce works and none of these authors agreed to offer you donationware.
Re: Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
#8> Amazon has occasionally [1] removed books from its online store and remotely deleted them from Kindles or [2] edited titles and re-uploaded new copies to its e-readers.
1. Not remotely ok but we understand that contracts expire somehow and "purchase" is not a legal term any more.
2. Wait, what? When would this be useful to the corporation? Is Jeff gearing up for more censorship like he does at WaPo?
Re: Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
#9I'm a heavy use of this feature so I'm pissed. Can anyone recommend alternatives? I need to be able to load any books I buy into Calibre so I can convert to whatever format I need.
Re: Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
#10The simple solution is to stop buying eBooks from Amazon. Pirate all of your epubs and PDFs so you will always have an offline backup. If you enjoyed the book buy a hard copy for a friend, relative, book club, etc from a local book store. Amazon doesn't need your money anymore.
Your solution hurts authors more than Amazon. Just buy ebooks from somewhere else! Don’t be cheap and pretend it’s principled. I know you say buy a copy if you enjoyed it but that’s not really how commerce works and none of these authors agreed to offer you donationware.
Go to a library if that's such a problem