A few days ago, news broke that Amazon was going to remove a feature that allows us to download Kindle ebooks to the computer. The feature was intended for sideloading ebooks for older Kindles that didn't have the ability to download wirelessly, but of course allows users to back up their ebooks to prevent Amazon from sneakily removing books from your library, which they have done before.
Being able to download your Kindle library to your computer is also useful if you are, say, switching to Kobo to protest Amazon's rollback of their DEI policies and their founder being all buddy-buddy with the billionaire administration.
Supposedly you'll still be able to pull ebooks off your Kindle directly, but newer Kindles use a different format that makes it more difficult to strip the DRM so that you can read the books from any e-reader. Which may, in fact, be why they are discontinuing this feature. Is it possible the boycott is hurting them enough that they are trying to stop people from taking their ebook libraries and jumping ship?
Regardless of the reason, if you want to liberate your Kindle library for reading on any device, you'll need to do it before Wednesday. Visit this article for detailed instructions on how to download your Kindle books to your computer.
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