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- Amazon has long offered an option “Download and Transfer via USB” for your purchases.
- This option was removed for the last generation Kindles, and will be lost for old models on February 26.
- Amazon may try to close a piracy, as Azw3 archives the tool generated where it is vulnerable to DRM-removing hacks.
Amazon Kindles is much like many other electronic devices, where users generally fall into two camps: Those who run the product in the manufacturer’s nicely well -kept ecosystem, and those who go their own way. Just like any Android users can choose to give up the play store and obtain their apps from alternative sourcesKindle users have the ability to Sideoad Books Over USB Instead of buying them directly from Amazon. But this week we learn about an upcoming change in how Kindles works that threaten to be a little annoying to users who are used to operating outside the lines.
When the twelfth generation the Kindle machine product launched last fall, Amazon implemented a few changes affecting the way these e-readers are able to store and transfer content. It not only included forcing them to operate over USB as MTP devices, but also write off Download and Transfer via USB Alternatives that allow users to load officially purchased books from Amazon – in the future, these transfers are limited to wireless data. So far, older Kindles has still managed to take advantage of this tool. It is changing now, with Amazon who closes it for everyone from February 26.
Why is this a problem? Well, like Android -Police Points out, this option was a bit notorious to be something of a pirate -friendly loophole in Amazon’s Kindle DRM. While the files Amazon wirelessly delivers to Kindle, is certainly locked to that device, the AZW3 files that you can download to your computer for transmission over USB are vulnerable to hacking tools that can remove DRM. On the one hand, it can give you a versatile backup of your purchases. On the other hand, you can pirate the files and share them with people who never compensated the author.
Given the responsibility that represented, and the availability of alternative means to get books at Kindle, it probably shouldn’t be very surprising that we finally see Amazon get around to turn it off. To be clear, this has no effect on your ability to load files on Kindle over USB; All that changes is that Amazon will no longer download AZW3 files of your purchases to your computer.
If you have any Kindle purchases that you want to download as Azw3 files -not that you will ever do anything uncomfortable with them -make sure you take them from your Amazon account before February 26th.