Download your Kindle books soon, because Amazon will block them after February 25, 2025
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17
Download & transfer via USB Transfer Tip: After downloading, use your USB cable to connect your computer and Kindle. Your Kindle will appear as a drive on your computer. Copy your downloaded file from your computer to your Kindle’s documents folder. ❗️Starting 26 February 2025, the ‘Download & Transfer via USB’ option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the ‘Deliver or Remove from Device’ option. Learn more about managing downloads
Amazon will disable downloading of Kindle books after 2025-02-25 (yup: slightly more than a week!):
(image on the right via Jan Wildeboer)
Edit 20250224: steps to convert from Kindle 1.17 on MacOS or Windows in 3 Ways to Convert Kindle to PDF for Free.
It allowed me to convert everything to PDF except one book which I found a free PDF of at [Wayback/Archive] Linear Algebra Done Right as [Wayback/Archive] linear.axler.net/LADR4e.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View] via [WaybackSave/Archive] Sheldon Axler on X: “The free Kindle version of the fourth edition of my book Linear Algebra Done Right is now available at www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Undergraduate-Mathematics-ebook/dp/B0DDT4WVRD. The free pdf version of the book is available at linear.axler.net. The free translation into Chinese is also available as a pdf file at linear.axler.net“ ¹
Back to the original:
Table with URLs for your Kindle libraries where you can download manually based on https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/booksAll/dateDsc/ which I got form the below mentioned download tools:
Download tools (in case you have many books):
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Jedi425/BulkKindleUSBDownloader: Quick script to download all your Kindle ebooks.
You can download all your e-books (that are eligible for download), or you can specify multiple ASINs to download. By default the script will only display warnings, errors, and a finish message. If you want to see progress, you have to use the--verboseflag. Selenium with ChromeDriver is used to handle login, and you can display the browser with--showbrowser– this may come handy if something goes wrong.You can also output logging to a file with--logfile; this is needed if you have enough books to fill your terminal buffer. - [Wayback/Archive] greasemonkey-scripts/download-all-kindle-books.js at main · chrishol/greasemonkey-scripts · GitHub
More domain links:
- [Wayback/Archive] Amazon operating domains by country. · GitHub where the second revision makes it valid JSON
- [Wayback/Archive] Amazon operating domains by country. · GitHub having one revision on a different date also making it actually valid JSON
- [Wayback/Archive] Amazon operating domains by country. · GitHub my fork for future expansion
- [Wayback/Archive] List of country-specific domains for Amazon.com · GitHub
- [Wayback/Archive] List of country-specific domains for Amazon.com · GitHub my fork for future expansion
- Amazon (company): website domains – Wikipedia (seems incomplete)
- [Wayback/Archive] Amazon – Domains, IPs and App Information (also incomplete, but in addition has a lot of AWS related domains)
- [Wayback/Archive] List of Amazon Domains (also incomplete)
Via this thread [Wayback/Archive] Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:: “Saved and liberated the books I “bought” at Amazon for my Kindle. Amazon will stop offering the “Download & transfer via USB” option …” – social.wildeboer.net
Saved and liberated the books I “bought” at Amazon for my Kindle. Amazon will stop offering the “Download & transfer via USB” option, so I have downloaded all 210 books. After downloading, I hunt them through Calibre and a certain plugin to remove the DRM stuff, convert the books to EPUB format so I have my private backup and can put them on a new ebook reader that is more open than the Amazon walled garden. And in future I will buy my eBooks someplace else. #ByeAmazon
Download & transfer via USB
Transfer Tip: After downloading, use your USB cable to connect your computer and Kindle. Your Kindle will appear as a drive on your computer. Copy your downloaded file from your computer to your Kindle’s documents folder.Starting 26 February 2025, the ‘Download & Transfer via USB’ option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the ‘Deliver or Remove from Device’ option. Learn more about managing downloads
So yes, I am in the market for a new ebook-reader. Nothing special, should be similar to the Kindle Paperwhite (1st gen) I have been using over many years. Backlight is a must. High resolution a plus. Long battery life (weeks) should be obvious. So if you know about a good and not so expensive device, please share!
(All 210 books done)
Now just to be very clear. I have paid for each and every single one of the 210 books, so I see my actions as making a personal backup that is actually usable. Is all. I can now #selfhost my books, just as I do with my music, TV Series and movies (that I have also all bought, most of it as physical media. Yes, I have quite a big space reserved for physical media like vinyl, CD, DVD in my apartment. Ripped all of it to my NAS Server)
To those that have a lot of eBooks from Amazon and don’t have the time/patience to manually click through the download option:
Python script to download all eBooks:
https://github.com/Jedi425/BulkKindleU…SBDownloader/tree/masterGreasemonkey script to download all 25 per page (you still have to manually click to open all pages, but then all 25 per page are downloaded automagically)
https://github.com/chrishol/greasemonk…ey-scripts/blob/main/download-all-kindle-books.js
Thank you to @eBerdnA for sharing this tip in the comments!(you may need to set some parameters like device name, adjust the URL in the script to your countries Amazon site, eg .de instead of .com, use at your own risk)
You may notice that I limit my replies in the threads to practical things. I see a problem (how can I access my eBook collection going forward?) and share my solution (which might not be your solution) and help my neighbours on the way. I am not interested in fundamental discussions on DRM and Amazons business model. I simply don’t want to waste time on things I can’t change, I prefer to share my time on helping other people :)
Queries:
- [WaybackSave/Archive] all amazon domains – Google-søk
- [Wayback/Archive] all amazon domains at DuckDuckGo
- [WaybackSave/Archive] download kindle books as pdf – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] download kindle books as pdf at DuckDuckGo
--jeroen
¹ More on [WaybackSave/Archive] Sheldon Axler on X: “The free Kindle version of the fourth edition of my book Linear Algebra Done Right is now available at www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Undergraduate-Mathematics-ebook/dp/B0DDT4WVRD. The free pdf version of the book is available at linear.axler.net. The free translation into Chinese is also available as a pdf file at linear.axler.net“:
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