- Amazon is eliminating download and transfer through the USB option in Kindles
- The function had not appeared in the last models.
- Moving is likely to fight the piracy of the electronic book
I have had and loved some of the best Kindles in the series since Amazon first presented the ereader, but using these devices can feel somewhat restrictive, especially Amazon is killing a useful function of transfer of USB files.
As reported by The Verge, the Download and Transfer option through USB will disappear on February 26. That means that you can no longer download electronic books bought on Amazon, and then move them to your Kindle through a cable USB connection.
The feature is not available in the latest generation of Kindles, expelled last year, but all other models will be affected. Amazon does not give a reason for the move, but it is almost certain that he takes energetic measures against the piracy of electronic books.
Using quite simple tools available online, users can download electronic books bought from Amazon, decipher DRM (Digital Right Management) protection and send them to other devices or distribute them widely on the web. That will no longer be possible.
Less flexibility
As is the case, efforts to fight digital pirates means that respectful users of the rules lose. This means that electronic books can no longer be stored in computers as backups, or move without a Wi-Fi connection, which gave Kindle owners an additional flexibility.
It is worth taking into account that Amazon occasionally eliminates the electronic books of its catalog or replaces them with modified versions. Now more than ever, users will be the whims of what Amazon decides to make available.
You can still move electronic books through Wi-Fi, of course, as well as transfer files to your Kindle through USB and software as caliber. It is specifically the ability to download purchases from the Amazon website to a computer that is disappearing.
This is also close to killing the previous AZW3 format for Amazon electronic books: it has been replaced by the newest KFX format, which is much more difficult to decipher in terms of its drm, and which is now used in most situations (except downloads to a computer).
