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New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers (goodereader.com)
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[–] casmael@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

………. So is there any attempt by Amazon here to limit users transferring their ebooks to their computers?

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In short, no.

What's changed here is now the Kindle and PC will actively communicate with each other during file transfers with MTP instead of the Kindle "pretending" to be a USB flash drive with USB mass storage. There are some important trade-offs that come with the switch to MTP but nothing that will stop you from transferring ebooks to or from a computer.