#booksfed — Public Fediverse posts

So, I spent a couple of hours #downloading all 170+ of my #Amazon #Kindle #eBooks last night. For those of you that are unaware, Amazon is removing the ability to download eBooks on February 26th.

Even if you don't plan / want to strip your books of the #DRM for your personal use, making a backup is a good idea. Hopefully most of you will remember when Amazon removed copies of George Orwell's 1984 (quite ironically, as everyone always points out) from all Kindles a few years back without any warning, or offering a replacement or refund.

I tried to get bun working to automate the download process, but wasn't successful (I don't think it was the tool -- I think the issue was with my crappy internet connection.) I'll link the Hackaday article about it below.

Again, I'd highly recommend downloading all of your Kindle eBooks, unless you are comfortable (a) relying on Amazon's cloud storage for maintaing your library, and (b) comfortable with Amazon's willingness to mess with your books on their own whims.

Personally, I'm not comfortable with that, and believe that having a backup of the items I've legally purchased is a legitimate reason for me to download them. Also this is part of a bigger project for me: adding my complete book collection to Zotero so it is available for reference in any of my writing tools, and linking my notes and highlights to proper references.

Here's the Hackaday article: https://hackaday.com/2025/02/18/auto-download-your-kindle-books-before-february-26th-deadline/

#reading #tablet #eReader #eReaders #eReadersForum #BooksFed

So, I spent a couple of hours #downloading all 170+ of my #Amazon #Kindle #eBooks last night. For those of you that are unaware, Amazon is removing the ability to download eBooks on February 26th.

Even if you don't plan / want to strip your books of the #DRM for your personal use, making a backup is a good idea. Hopefully most of you will remember when Amazon removed copies of George Orwell's 1984 (quite ironically, as everyone always points out) from all Kindles a few years back without any warning, or offering a replacement or refund.

I tried to get bun working to automate the download process, but wasn't successful (I don't think it was the tool -- I think the issue was with my crappy internet connection.) I'll link the Hackaday article about it below.

Again, I'd highly recommend downloading all of your Kindle eBooks, unless you are comfortable (a) relying on Amazon's cloud storage for maintaing your library, and (b) comfortable with Amazon's willingness to mess with your books on their own whims.

Personally, I'm not comfortable with that, and believe that having a backup of the items I've legally purchased is a legitimate reason for me to download them. Also this is part of a bigger project for me: adding my complete book collection to Zotero so it is available for reference in any of my writing tools, and linking my notes and highlights to proper references.

Here's the Hackaday article: https://hackaday.com/2025/02/18/auto-download-your-kindle-books-before-february-26th-deadline/

#reading #tablet #eReader #eReaders #eReadersForum #BooksFed