For those of you that use an older version of the Kindle for PC or Mac application on your computer to avoid ebooks in KFX format, Amazon has started forcing an update to the latest version even if you have automatic updates turned off.
- Install or Update the Kindle App on Your Computer Use the Kindle app to start reading from your PC or Mac.
- As the icons on each end suggest, this is a regular USB cable, which once detached from the plug can be used to connect your Kindle to a Mac or PC. Connected this way, its internal storage mounts.
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Feb 27, 2021 3 Click on 'Kindle' tab, if you are using the Kindle for PC/MAC version higher than 1.24, there will be a notification to remind you to downgrade your Kindle version, see below picture. Click the notification to open the window of downgrading the Kindle for PC and click on 'Start' button to start the automatic downgrading process. If you'd like to read your Kindle books on one specific computer even when you don't have an active internet connection, you can download the Kindle desktop app. Click the Download for PC & Mac button below the cover image to download the installer, double-click the downloaded file, and then follow the on-screen instructions to install.
There are a number of reports of this happening at MobileRead and it appears to affect both the PC and Mac versions of the app.
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.
Some folks have tried reverting back to an earlier version multiple times just to have the forced update take over again.
I've also been having the same exact problem with Amazon's Music app for PC. 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.
For those of you that use an older version of the Kindle for PC or Mac application on your computer to avoid ebooks in KFX format, Amazon has started forcing an update to the latest version even if you have automatic updates turned off.
- Install or Update the Kindle App on Your Computer Use the Kindle app to start reading from your PC or Mac.
- As the icons on each end suggest, this is a regular USB cable, which once detached from the plug can be used to connect your Kindle to a Mac or PC. Connected this way, its internal storage mounts.
Kindle On Computer Mac Free
Feb 27, 2021 3 Click on 'Kindle' tab, if you are using the Kindle for PC/MAC version higher than 1.24, there will be a notification to remind you to downgrade your Kindle version, see below picture. Click the notification to open the window of downgrading the Kindle for PC and click on 'Start' button to start the automatic downgrading process. If you'd like to read your Kindle books on one specific computer even when you don't have an active internet connection, you can download the Kindle desktop app. Click the Download for PC & Mac button below the cover image to download the installer, double-click the downloaded file, and then follow the on-screen instructions to install.
There are a number of reports of this happening at MobileRead and it appears to affect both the PC and Mac versions of the app.
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.
Some folks have tried reverting back to an earlier version multiple times just to have the forced update take over again.
I've also been having the same exact problem with Amazon's Music app for PC. 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.
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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. 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.
For 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. Removal of KFX DRM isn't yet possible with newer versions of Kindle for PC. The last version to support it was 1.26. 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.
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Update: Here's a post at MobileRead describing a way to stop the update from downloading by creating a file with the same name. This works with Kindle for PC. For Macs, see Ingo's comment below.
