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Amazon will remove the option to download/transfer Kindle e-books via USB by February 2025
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this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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Maaaan, I wish ereader open source software was better. This is one of the areas where I feel the gulf between corporate garbage and free alternatives most. It's just a hassle to manage, feature-poor, has terrible UI or all of the above.
https://github.com/Quill-OS/quill is a thing, although you have to get the exact model in order to make it work.
I really wanted https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book to be a thing, but its very hard to get the parts and assemble (in my opinion).
https://gitlab.com/guyjeangilles/piereader looks promising.
Honestly, the biggest hurtle does NOT appear to be the hardware, its getting the ebook in an open format. If Amazon removes the ability to download the files, then it really doesn't matter what you run, you cant read your book.
Theres other publishers that give you all the file types like: https://www.baen.com/. I recommend finding and supporting those.
If you download your books, how do you read them in other hardware? Aren’t they all drm locked?
https://epubor.com/3-ways-to-remove-drm-from-kindle-books.html
It's astonishingly easy tbh. I think this might be the main reason why they're trying to stop you from getting the files on your PC.
Edit: that link is apparently promoting their own software, but the calibre plugin works very well, and as a bonus calibre is a great foss ebook manager.