In the event you’re an avid e-book reader or somebody who has an intensive library of Kindle content material, now’s the time to again up your books.
Beginning on Wednesday, Feb. 26, readers will now not be capable to obtain Kindle e-books to a pc, the place you possibly can convert the file from Amazon’s proprietary, Kindle-specific .AZW3 to a special format for a non-Kindle e-reader. As soon as this function has been eradicated, Kindle e-books can solely be transferred to a Kindle machine through a wifi or mobile connection or accessed through the Kindle app or Kindle for net.
Whereas customers who learn primarily within the Kindle app or on a Kindle machine might not miss this function, its loss does make it inconceivable to transform Kindle books to be appropriate with different e-readers or to share them. Plus, if Amazon removes a title you have bought or loses the license to it sooner or later, you will not have entry to it.
How you can obtain and save your Kindle books
To obtain your Kindle books to your laptop now, signal into your Amazon account and go to Accounts & Lists > Content material Library > E-book. Discover the ebook you need to obtain from the record, open the Extra actions menu to the proper, and choose Obtain & switch through USB.
The pop-up window will warn you to the approaching doom of the USB obtain with the next message: “Beginning February 26, 2025, the ‘Obtain & Switch through USB’ possibility will now not be obtainable. You may nonetheless ship Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled units by deciding on the ‘Ship or Take away from Machine’ possibility.”
Till then, you possibly can choose your machine and hit Obtain, which is able to save the file to your laptop as a .AZW3 file. Sadly, there is no bulk obtain possibility, so you may should go one after the other.
You may then switch books to your Kindle by connecting it utilizing your USB wire and copying the file to the Kindle drive that seems in your desktop. Alternatively, you possibly can convert it to different codecs (like PDF) for studying on different units through a device like CloudConvert.
