On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued “Download and Transfer via USB” feature to archive your Kindle library.

  • @[email protected]English
    28•3 days ago

    It eludes me how people pay to ‘buy’ something that they cannot download in the first place. If I don’t have it as a file on my computer, I don’t own it. You wouldn’t pay to ‘buy’ a physical item if that meant only being able to look at it at the store, without the ability to take it home and do whatever you want with it.

    • @coolmojoEnglish
      18•3 days ago

      If buying is not owning…

    • @Theonetheycall1845English
      7•3 days ago

      Just wait until they can figure out how to do this to physical items. How? Idfk bro what am I a rocket appliance?

        • @Theonetheycall1845English
          2•3 days ago

          I’d love to see them put that on the big black dildo I purchase each year. Try me!

            • @Theonetheycall1845English
              2•2 days ago

              Safety eject option locked until subscription is paid. “911. I have a dildo shoved in my ass and my safety eject subscription ran out. Please help!” you know, it sounds crazy and like this could never happen but I say it’s just crazy enough it will happen. Look at who the American president is. That’s all the proof you need.

    • @stebatorEnglish
      5•3 days ago

      I agree. However, some dishonest services allow to download, but downloaded file is DRM. It is even worse.

      • @BananaTrifleViolinEnglish
        5•3 days ago

        Most services are forced to carry DRM only versions of Ebooks by the book publishers. But there are ways of legally removing the DRM - it’s a faff but doable. I buy epubs and don’t use Kindle (haven’t for a long time) as it’s much harder to remove the DRM and actually own your books.

        But way I look at it - if I bought the Kindle version of a book, I can just download a DRM free version by sailing the seas. Fuck Amazon.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•3 days ago

          It is very easy to remove DRM from kindle Books, but since you will not be avle to download them it will not be possible anymore.

          • @snakes_and_foxesEnglish
            1•3 days ago

            i keep getting mixed msgs on this (then again, I could be misinterpreting) but it sounds like you can still download the ebook to your kindle (it will be in .kfx format), but if you plug the kindle into the computer and copy the .kfx file to it, that you should then be able to import it into calibre on your computer and the kfx plugin should strip the DRM.

            i haven’t tested this to be sure yet (my kindle library is already downloaded and i’ve just been buying ebooks from Kobo since the Amazon announcement)