Amazon is removing the option to download Kindle ebooks to your PC on February 26, 2025. Yes, that includes ebooks that you've already purchased and have tied to your Amazon account. It's another ...

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February 26 is tomorrow. That's how long you have to download your Kindle books as files to your computer. We discussed the deadline at length in my previous article. If you have a lot of Kindle books ...

It’s almost hard to remember, but when it came out, iBooks could read only EPUB files, not PDFs, and the only way to load them was by syncing with iTunes. Over a number of releases of both iBooks and ...

Starting on January 20th, 2026, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors can allow DRM-free EPUB/PDF downloads from the Kindle store. Only verified purchasers can download DRM-free files; Kindle ...

Amazon has long offered a “Download & transfer via USB” option for your purchases. That option was removed for the most recent generation of Kindles, and is going away for old models on February 26.