If you have a Kindle and "bought" ebooks over the years, you have a week to download and back up your files before Amazon blocks you from doing that.

There are scripts (see the thread below) that will bulk-download.

It's a reminder that Amazon is a rapacious monopolist.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=366171

Amazon is removing Download & Transfer option - MobileRead Forums

Amazon is removing Download & Transfer option Amazon Kindle

@dangillmor

There is another way...

irc://irchighway/ebooks

I can't vet the link because I use an irc app but you get the idea - we buy what we can if they let us, we take what they hide if we can't buy it.

@rouxdoo @dangillmor pirating fiction books drives those authors out of business. Few of them make any real money, and when their books don't sell their publishers drop them.

@rouxdoo @dangillmor The other option, of course, is to buy from almost any other outlet (like Kobo), download the ACSM file, and crack that. It works exactly like cracking Kindle books - you just need an additional plugin for Calibre which imports them.

Or use a library. Or buy the paper book.

But please don't pirate fiction, especially genre fiction. It destroys the books you want to read and the livelihoods of the authors who provide them.

@rouxdoo @dangillmor you can also ofc still copy the kindle book from the kindle device, and then you have the crackable file Amazon didn't want you to have. This works at least up to the Oasis.