Amazon dropped a bombshell when it announced that it is curtailing one of the most loved features of Kindle e-readers: the ability to download and transfer books to your Kindle. Amazon has stated that the feature will not be available with any Kindle e-reader starting February 26, 2025. However, it seems the company is impatient to see the ruling take effect, so many users have already reported vis Reddit they aren’t able to download and transfer books to their Kindle devices.
As it is, there has been a sudden rush among users to download the books they have purchased from Amazon to their computers before the Feb 26 deadline kicks in. However, a few days before the deadline, many stated they could not download their books from the Kindle library to their local storage. For many, such downloads stretched to hundreds or even thousands of titles with a cumulative worth of several thousand dollars.
Downloading the books to your computer has several advantages, as they are a local library backup. However, one of the biggest reasons people tend to download books to their PC is that this enables them to convert the Amazon Kindle file to a format that will let them read the same via any other e-reader or another device. This allows for greater flexibility regarding the device on which they can read the books. This is also an act of e-book piracy, which is why Amazon has decided to kill the download and transfer option in the first place.
This is also part of Amazon’s well-thought-out strategy to curb e-book piracy. All the 12th-generation Kindle devices lacked the feature right from the start. However, it has now been extended to cover all Kindle devices. Remember that you can still use Calibre to transfer books to your Kindle. You can also continue to sideload e-books to your Kindle using USB, as before.
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