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Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 5 days ago by Cat@ponder.cat to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[โ€“] ChogChog@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You literally just said the two things I wished Kindle allowed me to do natively.

I hate the fact my Kindle store books will bundle by series, but my non-kindle books will not.

[โ€“] ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Yea, I had like a 2nd or 3rd gen paperwhite and rooted it for this reason, but my partner's wasn't hackable until this moment. So now she can have it too.