Amazon has announced plans to remove a long-standing feature that will impact Kindle users who prefer to back up their ebooks or convert them to other formats.
The Verge reports that Amazon has revealed that it will be discontinuing a feature that allows users to download purchased Kindle books to their computers and transfer them to their e-readers via USB. The change, set to take effect on February 26, has raised concerns among some Kindle users who rely on the feature.
The download feature, which has been available since the early days of the Kindle, was initially introduced to accommodate users who didn’t have access to Wi-Fi or Amazon’s cellular Whispernet service. It allowed them to download purchased books to their computers and then manually transfer them to their Kindles using a USB cable. Although the process is more cumbersome than sending books directly to…
