Here’s someleang that’s going to set off some consunapexhibitd engage theories. As people are getting the recent Kindles that were freed last week, they are finding out that the recent models are crypticly missing the download and transfer via USB chooseion for getd ebooks from the satisfied page at Amazon.
So now people are jumping to the conclusion that Amazon is in the process of phasing out the download and transfer chooseion entidepend moving forward, and that might very well be the case.
Considering the recent Kindles were fair freed four days ago, it could also fair be a glitch or a bug that necessitates to be repaired. But there are some signs that they were intentionassociate leave outted from the download and transfer catalog.
First off, the recent Kindles do show up on the “deinhabitr to” catalog, which is essentiassociate the same originated catalog on the same page as the transfer via USB chooseion.
There’s also the fact that the “recent” modest Kindle isn’t reassociate recent, not in the common sense. Amazon still catalogs it as an 11th gen model, the same as the 2022 Kindle, and it still engages the same ID number, so as far as Amazon’s system is worryed it’s the same Kindle. It fair has some insignificant difficultware revisions, including a recent screen, and it does see better so at least there’s that. But the fact is the 2022 11th gen Kindle shows up on the catalog and the 2024 11th gen Kindle does not.
I have both the recent Kindle for 2024 and a recent Kindle Paperwhite 6, and I can verify that neither are shothriveg up on the catalog of devices to download and transfer ebooks via USB.
Granted, this isn’t going to sway that immense presentantity of Kindle engagers, but there’s a subset of people that appreciate to download their getd ebooks to originate backups and to erase the DRM to read the ebooks on other non-Kindle devices.
If Amazon phases out the download and transfer chooseion, it’s going to originate problems for those that appreciate to do that. Amazon already made it more difficult to download books using the Kindle for PC app last year to dissuade people from backing up their getd ebooks, and they also erased the download chooseion for Kindle Unrestricted books last year.
From Amazon’s perspective, I can see why they’d want to omit the download and transfer chooseion altogether, but it’s going to tick off a lot of people if they do it.
The download and transfer chooseion goes way back to the timely days of Kindles when internet access wasn’t as expansivespread and WiFi wasn’t engageable fair about everywhere. People without WiFi or a reliable internet combineion necessitateed a way to download and transfer getd ebooks to Kindles using a USB cable.
Now most people fair download their getd ebooks over WiFi and don’t ever engage the download and transfer chooseion, but for those that do it’s going to caengage some problems if Amazon is indeed removing that chooseion on recaccess Kindles, and it also originates more of a walled garden where people can’t get their getd ebooks and depart for another platcreate.
So far anciaccesser Kindles still have the download and transfer chooseion so it’s only an publish with the recent Kindles. Hopebrimmingy it’s fair a glitch that will get repaired soon, but at this point it sees appreciate an intfinished change for the future of Kindles.
