imapuppetlookaway@lemmy.world to Books@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days agoOn Feb. 26, 2025 Amazon will remove your ability to download your ebooks to your computer or any other device except Kindle. (crosspost from !bookclub)www.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up176arrow-down1external-linkOn Feb. 26, 2025 Amazon will remove your ability to download your ebooks to your computer or any other device except Kindle. (crosspost from !bookclub)www.youtube.comimapuppetlookaway@lemmy.world to Books@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
If you have books on Amazon and you want them to be on any device besides Kindle, download them soon.
minus-squareEamonnMR@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoHuh, I didn’t know you could do that. Where do you go to get to the downloads? Are they ending the ability to upload files to Kindle too?
minus-squareMoonguide@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoThe day they do that is the day I move on to another e-reader. Like hell I’ll pay for books I already have in physical.
minus-squareimapuppetlookaway@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoYou go to your Amazon account to find your book purchases. You can still load the books onto kindle, but nowhere else, so you’re locked in to the kindle ecosystem. The guy in the video explains it better than i can.
Huh, I didn’t know you could do that. Where do you go to get to the downloads?
Are they ending the ability to upload files to Kindle too?
The day they do that is the day I move on to another e-reader. Like hell I’ll pay for books I already have in physical.
You go to your Amazon account to find your book purchases. You can still load the books onto kindle, but nowhere else, so you’re locked in to the kindle ecosystem. The guy in the video explains it better than i can.