Warning to Amazon Kindle Users
By “Huckabee” pop culture guru Pat Reeder (Hollywood Hi-Fi)There has been little said about it, but after February 26, you will no longer be able to download e-books you’ve purchased from Amazon for your Kindle Readers. Amazon claims this is part of the move toward cloud-based content and is more convenient for later model Kindles, and you’ll still be able to “send” books to your device to read offline.
https://www.archyde.com/amazon-ends-kindle-book-downloads-to-pc-in-2025/
But what do I always preach to you? “If you don’t own a hard copy of something, then you don’t really own it.” For instance, I pay for streaming music services, for the variety and convenience, and to make sure the artists at least get a few pennies. But I also have many thousands of records and CDs, plus two back-up hard drives filled with tens of thousands of digitized albums. That’s because when you rely on streaming, you never know what the real owner is going to decide you shouldn’t be allowed to hear anymore and disappear it. This is also why I have two DVDs of “Song of the South.”
The problem is even worse with digitized books. You might be able to access all your books from the cloud – depending on whether or not the author has been “canceled” – but how do you know it hasn’t been edited, rewritten or had “problematic” sections expunged entirely? This has already happened.
So here’s how to download digital copies of any e-books you’ve purchased from Amazon:
1. Go to Amazon.com and hover your cursor over “Accounts and Lists” on the upper right corner.
2. A menu will appear. Scroll down the right column and click on “Content Library.”
3. On the next menu, click on “Books.”
4. A list of all your Kindle books will come up. Sorry, you’ll have to download them one at a time, and this only works for books you’ve purchased, not just borrowed. On the right side of the screen by the book’s title is a menu. Click on “More actions,” then on “Download & transfer via USB.” That should download a copy to your computer that you can save to a memory stick and put on your Kindle Reader.
You’re welcome.