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Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued "Download and Transfer via USB" feature to archive your Kindle library.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How would that help here? The only thing Amazon is removing is the ability to download your purchased eBooks to your PC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It helps because you regain that feature when you jailbreak...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

The files now use a different kind of DRM that hasn't been defeated yet.

The purpose of using the soon to be removed feature was to get files with an older encryption that can be easily removed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

When you jailbrake the kindle you can download the ebooks from Amazon to the PC?