If you happen to’re an avid e-book reader or somebody who has an in depth 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 characteristic has been eradicated, Kindle e-books can solely be transferred to a Kindle machine by way of a wifi or mobile connection or accessed by way of the Kindle app or Kindle for internet.
Whereas customers who learn primarily within the Kindle app or on a Kindle machine might not miss this characteristic, its loss does make it not possible to transform Kindle books to be suitable 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 one 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 > Ebook. Discover the ebook you need to obtain from the listing, open the Extra actions menu to the proper, and choose Obtain & switch by way of USB.
The pop-up window will provide you with a warning to the upcoming doom of the USB obtain with the next message: “Beginning February 26, 2025, the ‘Obtain & Switch by way of USB’ possibility will now not be out there. You may nonetheless ship Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled units by choosing the ‘Ship or Take away from Gadget’ 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 isn’t any 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 twine 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 by way of a software like CloudConvert.