Kindle for Mac will automatically detect all the titles included in your library and a double click on the e-book's cover will quickly download it to your computer. Kindle for Mac follows the same line: just make sure you know your Amazon account’s credentials and you can read away in a matter of minutes. With all the Kindle reading applications for different platforms provided by Amazon, purchasing an actual Kindle device is not a necessity anymore. Kindle for Mac allows you to continue your reading on your desktop computer without missing a beat. For Macs, see Ingo’s comment below.Thanks to Amazon’s Whispersync technology, you can read the same e-book on multiple devices, without worrying about details such as bookmarks or the furthest page read. Update: Here’s a post at MobileRead describing a way to stop the update from downloading by creating a file with the same name. If anyone has a solution on how to keep the Kindle for PC/Mac app from updating, please share. Some use version 1.17 to avoid KFX ebooks altogether but now that Amazon is forcing this update it’s going to cause issues for those that still use older versions of Kindle for PC/Mac.

Removal of KFX DRM isn’t yet possible with newer versions of Kindle for PC. If you own a Kindle e-reader you can still use the download option on Amazon’s website to get non-KFX ebooks, but if you rely on the Kindle app you might encounter this forced update problem.įor those of you that are confused by all of this, it all comes down to being able to remove DRM from KFX ebooks to convert them to other formats using Calibre. There’s a great write-up over at MobileRead that outlines all the ways to deal with Kindle for PC/Mac when it comes to ebooks in KFX format. I don’t like the newer version since they got rid of the mini player so I keep reverting to an older version and it keeps automatically updating to the new version. I’ve also been having the same exact problem with Amazon’s Music app for PC. Some folks have tried reverting back to an earlier version multiple times just to have the forced update take over again. Even if you choose to ignore the update when the prompt appears, it will still update the program to version 1.30 whether you like it or not.

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