![]() My advice is to find a copy of the older version, and back it up, so you’ll have it in the future for re-installing, if need be. I’m currently using an older version, and it works fine with Calibre. I was aware there were compatibility issues with the new Kindle for PC version, but wasn’t aware what they were. If you found this post worth reading and want to kick in a buck or two to the author, click of the Mind: Update: In a comment, Steve notes you can also download AZW files by going to your “Manage Your Content and Devices” page, then clicking on the “…” button next to the title you want and selecting “Download & transfer via USB.” Even if the Kindle device you choose is a newer model, it still sends you the. Meanwhile, I suppose we can hope that Calibre adds the ability to read KFX files sometime soon. But even if Amazon stops, those who own older Kindle hardware devices will still be able to obtain AZW-format ebooks via the expedient of downloading them to the Kindle then copying them across via USB. It’s unclear how long Amazon will support these older versions, or that they’ll be available for download. Once you have, go to the Tools menu, then Options, then General and uncheck the box to install updates automatically-and then just don’t update. The only way to resume being able to convert downloaded Kindle content is to uninstall Kindle for PC, then reinstall Kindle for PC version 1.17, currently accessible via this link (or this one for the OS X version). Instead, it uses the new KFX ebook format-which nothing else can read or convert right now. It turns out that the new version of Kindle for PC, 1.19, no longer uses the AZW ebook format that Calibre knows how to read. Even though it’s DRM-free, when I dragged and dropped the file from my “My Kindle Content” directory across to Calibre, it couldn’t figure out what to do with the file.Ī little detective work turned up this Mobileread forum thread. I noticed it myself when I was trying to add a DRM-free title I just bought, Bone Dance by Emma Bull, to my Calibre library. Things just got a little harder for folks who like to store their Amazon purchases in Calibre. So, there may no longer be any need to use these workarounds. The task took about half-an-hour, but to my great joy the books are now for the 1st time in nearly a year in the Fire, and I have read parts of them to verify that all is well there.Īgain, thank you all that have tried to help me.Update, 4/5/18: I just noticed a post in a MobileRead thread indicating that there are now Calibre plug-ins available for handling KFX. software, but I clicked Convert as required. ![]() A good many of them were in a format not recognised by the. I clicked Send to Device in Calibre selected all 124 books, and sent them to the Fire. I now noticed that, even though Finder on my MacBook had not detected the Fire, Calibre had done so, in tiny print at the foot of the window.Ħ. cable of the kind scorned by Amazon as unfit for the purpose. Wearied by interminable discussion about special file-transfer software, the need for a particular type of cable, using wifi or email, I connected the Fire to my MacBook with a cheap generic. On my new MacBook, I imported the contents to Calibre.ĥ. On my old MacBook, I exported the contents of the Calibre Library to an empty folder on an external drive.Ĥ. I uninstalled Calibre from my new MacBook, and reinstalled it.ģ. I went to Manage My Content and Devices in Amazon, and ticked my Amazon Fire as my default Device.Ģ. and judging from what I have seen online, there are many, many such others - here is the eventual solution:ġ. For the benefit of any others that have struggled as I have with this. I am hoping that someone in this helpful forum can come to my aid ! My apology if I have chosen the wrong venue. I have posted a similar cry for help in the Fire Users Forum, and have not had a single answer. However, the tablet was still not shown as recognised by the MacBook, whether in Finder or in Disk Utility. As an experiment, I yesterday bought a new book from Amazon on my MacBook, and downloaded it via the USB-cable to the tablet. When I go to Settings in the tablet, it can find the MacBook, but has greyed out the choice to allow the MacBook to control file-transfer. By the way, both USB-ports on the MacBook work perfectly with other devices such as an external drive or a memory-stick. When I connect it to the MacBook, using a USB-cable supplied by Amazon specifically for data-transfer, the MacBook does not detect the tablet. Last year, I bought a new Amazon Fire tablet HD 8 (10th generation). Over the years, I have successfully downloaded them from my previous MacBook (El Capitan) to Kindle e-readers, using a USB-cable. I have several hundred books on this MacBook Air.
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