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Amazon will remove the option to download/transfer Kindle e-books via USB by February 2025
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this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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If you download your books, how do you read them in other hardware? Aren’t they all drm locked?
https://epubor.com/3-ways-to-remove-drm-from-kindle-books.html
It's astonishingly easy tbh. I think this might be the main reason why they're trying to stop you from getting the files on your PC.
Edit: that link is apparently promoting their own software, but the calibre plugin works very well, and as a bonus calibre is a great foss ebook manager.
I heavily depends on where you get them. Most ebook publishers actually DONT put DRM on them. And other software can very easily remove the DRM if it is on the books.
Most systems can read the ebook format. Linux/Mac/Windows often comes with software. And if they dont, Calibre can work them.
~~My point is what’s the point of downloading kindle ebooks if they can only be read after connecting to the cloud or whatever anyway?~~
Read the second part of your comment lol.
What other software?
https://github.com/nodrm/DeDRM_tools is just the first one that pops up. Theres a LOT of software out there that does this. I would recommend getting a copy as GitHub has been going after "grey" repos for a bit once they are discovered (see switch emulation and the many fan games).
Most of the time, I personally just avoid by going to publishers that dont lock down books. They make things much easier than Amazon.