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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.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 days ago (11 children)

thus I have my personal library backed up on calibre. Wonderful software that's been around for twenty fiveish years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah is this going to break calibre functionality? I remember using it to rip books from my kindle library but not how, exactly 🤔

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’ll break saving books you bought from Amazon, but you’ll still be able to send books you got from other places to it from Calibre. Fortunately barely any of my ebooks on my kindle are from Amazon (though my next ereader isn’t going to be a kindle, that’s for sure).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Cool guess I’ll download anything I bought from Amazon before the cutoff then it’s been ages and I can’t remember what’s there o7

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