{"id":3013,"date":"2025-03-04T17:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T22:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:43:39","slug":"amazon-no-more-ebooks-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2025\/03\/04\/amazon-no-more-ebooks-downloads\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon No More eBooks Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In February of this year, I came across this article from The Verge<\/a>, called: “Amazon\u2019s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books<\/a><\/strong>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Effectively, this article reports that after February 26th, you can only download books from the Kindle store to your Kindle device over Wi-Fi. This means that ebooks you purchased can no longer be downloaded and converted into an epub<\/code> format to be consumed by another e-reader like Apple’s Books.app, which I normally do on my iPad or iPhone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, this policy change poses an immediate problem for me when consuming or reading my ebooks. However, it also in my view crosses an ethical boundary. Digital media such as ebooks, which you have paid full prices for, is no longer yours. The buyer of such content is at the mercy of the distribution platform, in this case Amazon. This simply does not sit well with me. In the past, Amazon has also been known to remove purchased content due to changes in distribution rights, which is normally outside of the buyer’s control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I now have to adopt a new process that I will use whenever I buy ebooks from the Kindle platform. I will describe this process in detail below so that in the future should I need to refer to it, it is here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This process will remove the Digital Rights Management from the ebook that you just purchased and allows us to store a DRM-free ebook in Calibre, an ebook management software. This process will only work on Windows, so I had to spin up a Windows virtual machine for this purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Software required:<\/p>\n\n\n

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